Serbian Orthodox Church

BELGRADE - Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church led an Orthodox Christmas liturgy in the Church of St Sava in central Belgrade on Tuesday morning.

The liturgy, which began at 9 am, was attended by a large number of people, including Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic as well as the Roman Catholic Archbishop in Belgrade, Cardinal Ladislav Nemet.

HILANDAR MONASTERY - Only a strong and free Serbia can succeed in defending its state and national interests, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said at the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Hilandar on Mt Athos on Monday.

"I am happy that today, more than ever, we can also help our holy sites," Vucic wrote in a post on his avucic Instagram account.

IERISSOS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday he would preserve Serbia and would not let anyone return it to the past.

In an Instagram video he shot in Ierissos, Greece, en route to the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Hilandar on Mt Athos, Vucic said this year would "not be easy for us Serbs."

KARYES - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic on Wednesday visited the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Hilandar, which is celebrating the Feast of the Entry of the Most Holy Mother of God into the Temple, and noted that Serbia was helping the renovation of one of the greatest Serbian holy sites.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic hosted a lunch for Serbian Patriarch Porfirije, the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik on Friday to thank them for their assistance in the fight against the adoption of a UN General Assembly resolution on Srebrenica.

BRUSSELS - EU spokesperson Peter Stano on Tuesday criticised Pristina's decision to ban Serbian Patriarch Porfirije and seven bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church from entering Kosovo-Meothija, noting that the move violated arrangements for official visits and ignored the importance of the Serbian Orthodox Church for "parts of the citizens" of Kosovo-Metohija.

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

BELGRADE - The Serbs are a Christian nation of the Golgotha and the Resurrection and Kosovo-Metohija is where our cradle and our home and our living and our deceased are, Serbian Patriarch Porfirije said on Friday in his Easter message, pointing out absolute untruths and an unprecedented historical revisionism aimed at declaring, by simple inversion, the Serbs - the victims of multiple genocide

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik and Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Monday.

"One of the most important meetings with His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije and Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik," Vucic wrote in a post on his buducnostsrbijeav Instagram profile.

BELGRADE - It must be said clearly whether Kosovo-Metohija is a Serbian national project or not, and the Serbian Orthodox Church must work on its relationship with the Vatican because having the pope on our side is in the interest of Serbia, says FM Ivica Dacic.