Serbian Orthodox Church Christmas message

Serbian Orthodox believers celebrate Christmas today. In his Christmas message, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Pavle said that “the lack of balance between man and nature, that’s to say the peace between God and man” were the reasons for the numerous tragic events in the world today. Serbian Orthodox Church Christmas message The Church expressed its concern for events in Kosovo. The message was read out by Head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, Amfilohije, instead of Pavle, due to the patriarch’s illness. “For our country of St. Lazar, world powers today are tossing dice and shamelessly undermining our feelings and dignity,” read the message. “Today, because of their own interests in the Balkans and Europe, and by trampling moreover on all norms of international law that the modern world is based on, world powers want to steal the Serbian people’s cradle from them, their soul and heart which will forever remain in Kosovo,” continued the message. “Let all those who are blatantly violating all God’s norms and human rights, and above all those of the Serbian people at the cradle of its birthright consider this fact,” stated the patriarch’s Christmas message. It went on to say that “at this time of celebration and joy, we mustn’t forget our brothers and sisters driven from Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia and Kosovo.” “We call on the powers that be in Serbia and Montenegro to allow them a normal and dignified life, to address their right to return and the return of their stolen property.” The Serbian Orthodox Church also remembered “all those who stayed in their own homes, or who returned to the ashes of their homes.” “We observe and see that they suffer discrimination and humiliation every day because they are Serbs, and because they’ve gathered the strength and courage to return and survive in their own homes,” the message continued. The Church also prayed to God to preserve our children and youth from the “contagious temptations” of our times: drugs, alcohol and other vices. “Knowing that the world is left to the young, who grow up into people and into our successors, we want them to be armed with virtue and goodness, and to be wary of the powerful temptations that the world offers and imposes on you,” the message warned. The message warned of a particular threat to young people in the form of “a concocted process of imposing a pseudo-culture and imitating it.”

Serbian Orthodox Church Christmas message

The Church expressed its concern for events in Kosovo. The message was read out by Head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, Amfilohije, instead of Pavle, due to the patriarch’s illness.

“For our country of St. Lazar, world powers today are tossing dice and shamelessly undermining our feelings and dignity,” read the message.

“Today, because of their own interests in the Balkans and Europe, and by trampling moreover on all norms of international law that the modern world is based on, world powers want to steal the Serbian people’s cradle from them, their soul and heart which will forever remain in Kosovo,” continued the message.

“Let all those who are blatantly violating all God’s norms and human rights, and above all those of the Serbian people at the cradle of its birthright consider this fact,” stated the patriarch’s Christmas message.

It went on to say that “at this time of celebration and joy, we mustn’t forget our brothers and sisters driven from Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia and Kosovo.”

“We call on the powers that be in Serbia and Montenegro to allow them a normal and dignified life, to address their right to return and the return of their stolen property.”

The Serbian Orthodox Church also remembered “all those who stayed in their own homes, or who returned to the ashes of their homes.”

“We observe and see that they suffer discrimination and humiliation every day because they are Serbs, and because they’ve gathered the strength and courage to return and survive in their own homes,” the message continued.

The Church also prayed to God to preserve our children and youth from the “contagious temptations” of our times: drugs, alcohol and other vices.

“Knowing that the world is left to the young, who grow up into people and into our successors, we want them to be armed with virtue and goodness, and to be wary of the powerful temptations that the world offers and imposes on you,” the message warned.

The message warned of a particular threat to young people in the form of “a concocted process of imposing a pseudo-culture and imitating it.”