Patriarch releases Easter message

In his Easter message delivered on Good Friday, Head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Pavle focused on Kosovo.

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Friday, 06.04.2007.

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Patriarch releases Easter message

The epistle's emphasis, however, was on what will become of Kosovo, "the Serbian historical heartland", whose ethnic Albanian majority seeks independence.

The United States and some European countries have endorsed a proposal to give Kosovo independence, but Patriarch Pavle denounced this as coming from "darkened minds who take the liberty to violate laws" by redrawing borders.

Patriarch Pavle insisted that its secession would amount to "changing of ... our entire history, culture, of Serbia's statehood."

Even if Kosovo secedes, the patriarch said, "we must not be disheartened, we must not be afraid. We believe in Christ and we have faith in God."

"We must remain with Christ and refrain from any hatred, from any bitterness. ... Those who inflict evil upon others do even more so to themselves," the leader said, also decrying the desecration and destruction of more than 100 ancient Serb churches and monasteries in Kosovo in recent years.

Patriarch Pavle, 92, also lamented that "millions of ordinary people are victims of poverty and hunger while a small number lives in limitless luxury."

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