Pavle, Serbian Patriarch

MERDARE - The Pristina authorities banned Serbian Patriarch Porfirije and seven bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church from entering Kosovo-Metohija on Monday.

Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg voted on a resolution on local and parliamentary elections in Serbia, which also calls for an international investigation into the vote.

BELGRADE - Serbia's national electoral commission on Tuesday approved the Cedomir Jovanovic - It Must Be Done Differently and the Russian Party - Slobodan Nikolic electoral lists for the December 17 parliamentary polls.

Representatives of the two lists submitted additional signatures to meet the requirement of them being supported by a minimum of 10,000 legally valid signatures.

"With His Holiness @patrijarh_porfirije and the bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, I discussed all matters of vital importance for our people and country, as well as the difficulties ahead on the international political level, especially regarding Kosovo and Metohija.

Bishops of Serbia's powerful Orthodox Church on Thursday elected Porfirije Peric as their 46th patriarch.

The new Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovac and Patriarch of Serbia had previously, since 2014, been Metropolitan of Zagreb and Ljubljana.

Metropolitan of Zagreb-Ljubljana Porfirije has been elected the new patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Who is the new patriarch? Screenshot/ TV B92

According to Sputnik, it happened on the eve of the travel to Rovca near Kolasin, where the Serbian defense minister was supposed to lay a wreath at Pavle Bulatovic's monument today.
Vulin is also expected to attend a liturgy at the Kostrikovaca Monastery.

Belgrade Appeals Court has confirmed the verdict acquitting former Yugoslav Army brigade commander Pavle Gavrilovic of responsibility for the murders of Kosovo Albanian civilians in the village of Trnje/Terrne on March 25, 1999.

The court however upheld the conviction of his subordinate officer, Rajko Kozlina, sentencing him to 15 years in prison.

The meteorological authority, RHMZ, on Tuesday morning issued a warning on its website about local occurrences of rain that may freeze on the ground.

The alert concerns northern parts of Serbia on Tuesday evening, and the north and in the west of the country overnight and on Wednesday morning.

Patriarch Pavle passed away in 2009.

The ministry's PR department quickly corrected the original press release, and apologized the for the mistake, "above all to Defense Minister Aleksadnar Vulin for the inconvenience, and to all citizens and media representatives who, unlike the ill-wishers, showed their understanding for the error."

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