"We already have a situation where certain believers refuse to receive priests unless the priests promise not to mention the patriarch in their prayers," religious analyst Draško Đenović told Vreme.
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in his conversation with Patriarch Porfiry, pointed out that Russians and Serbs are united by the Orthodox faith and a common culture based on it.
"True and real fear and all the problems and frustrations that we have inside and outside of us are nothing but precisely the fear of that enemy called death," emphasized Patriarch Porphyry
On the tenth day of the trip, about 80 cyclists, mostly students, set off from Munich to Ulm, and were escorted by Bishop Grigorije
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"I would like our children to return to classrooms, to primary and secondary schools and to universities," said the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Porfirije
Ahead of the big protest on March 15, the Serbian Orthodox Church calls for the rejection of violence of any kind. The students have a similar message, who appeal to all religious communities to be with their people, protect the youth and help everything to pass in peace.
On Friday (February 28), several metropolitans, archbishops and bishops called for respect for students, and responsible expression and reporting, dissociating themselves from the views of representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church expressed in previous days
Metropolitan David of Kruševac once again spoke out about the students, calling them "thugs, manitos and people from Veresia", but also "Serbian Ustashas". This term is lexically and historically impossible, because the Ustasha authorities are responsible for murders and persecutions of Serbs in concentration camps like Jasenovac.
On Friday, February 14, 2025, the theologian Blagoje Pantelić was supposed to give a lecture in the parish house in Munich, but it was canceled due to the opposition of the Serbian Patriarchate
I know for sure that Porfirije respects everyone's conscience as a sacred space, that the patriarch, with a gesture that now seems above all gestures to me, shows, in Eucharistic terms, "the end of everything with images", that is, how he agrees with the original demands of the students, how he agrees with Dr. Perišić's principled views and how he inherits the peace-making spirit of Patriarch Pavle. I accept being accused of naivety, but not of manipulation: the good Pavle would have shut up those healing, mystical 15 minutes with the students
The Serbian Orthodox Church pointed out that anyone who knew Patriarch Pavle or who listened to his sermons or read interviews and theological texts "knows that any, even the mildest, political engagement was absolutely impossible in his case."
Unfortunately, we have an answer to the idiotic question "who cares about laws and the rule of law". The same ones who want us to calmly wait for the new canopy
"I am horrified to learn that a third female student has also been seriously injured, this time in already wounded Novi Sad," Patriarch Porfirije announced on his official Instagram account.
The Serbian Orthodox Church emphasized that it is firmly determined to stop "groundless insults, threats and attacks on the patriarch" with the demati on the mentioned text.
On the occasion of the SOC announcement, the students said that their protests are based on the values of Saint Sava. Dušan S. and Nikolina Sinđelić assess that the generalization of students is unfair and that the Church should stand with young people who are fighting for a better society
The Serbian Orthodox Church has accused the protesting students of "living in parallel universes" where they "make a mockery of the values of Saint Sava".
"We are one family, we are one family. We are once connected by faith, fathers and forefathers and their faith," said Patriarch Porphyry at the end of the liturgy on the occasion of St. John's Day
A lie will not stop being a lie if the Church presents it as the truth through skillful demagoguery and verbal juggling at someone else's expense. Nor will injustice cease to be injustice if a corrupt or intimidated judiciary is portrayed as justice in the propaganda media. And no excuse for cowardly and opportunistic silence in the face of naked evil helps, because the Church whose members are not free and brave to say what they think is not the Church of Christ
SSP Vice President Marinika Tepić recalled that Aleksandar Vučić informed the public that his "loyalists", ready to defend him to the death, were meeting in a small church
The Government of Montenegro has given consent for the construction of a monument to Metropolitan Amfilohije Radović of Montenegro and the Littoral in Berane. "The monument to Metropolitan Amfilohi will be a permanent reminder of his strength, wisdom and his love for Montenegro and religion," said Aleksa Bečić, Vice President of the Government of Montenegro for Security, Defense, Crime Fighting and Internal Policy.
Church finances in Serbia have always been considered a carefully guarded secret. Budget funds from the state coffers go to the Serbian Orthodox Church indirectly, usually through projects. Religious analyst Draško Đenović explains for "Vreme" that with huge expenditures and donations, the state is actually paying back the debt to the church for property that was confiscated a long time ago.
Bells will ring in Orthodox churches in Serbia today at noon, with the blessing of the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Porfirija, for the "salvation of the Serbian state and people". That is, because in the afternoon at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, the session will begin in which the resolution on Srebrenica will be voted on.
Bishop Pahonmije of Vranje was apparently promoted to the rank of Metropolitan at the last council of the Serbian Orthodox Church, writes the InfoVranje portal. However, according to Nova.rs interlocutor from the SPC, these changes were not really approved by the Church itself, primarily due to the unclear criteria by which dioceses grow into metropolitans. But that is not what matters when it comes to Pachomius
Yesterday in the afternoon, a priest was attacked in the Liman settlement in Novi Sad, the Serbian Orthodox Church announced, accusing "known media anti-Church and anti-Serb armies" for the incident.
"Everything that benefits man, respects his freedom, honor and dignity - is blessed," says Stefan Jovanović, a doctoral student at the Theological Seminary.
On an annual level in Serbia, it is necessary to perform 350 organ transplants. Currently, that number for the first six months of this year is 28. The Association of Patients of Serbia says that people have various fears about bequeathing organs, and believers often think that this act is not Christian.
