The Monastery of Gracanica ... center of Kosovo and Metohija. This monastery—an endowment from the Serbian King Milutin—was built in 1321. Its patron generously bestowed upon it precious gifts, lands, ...

You all know that that for two decades now, a tragedy is happening in the Serbian land. The Orthodox inhabitants of Kosovo ... Even the very word, “Metohija” translates as “Church land”. On this place ...

The Patriarch called on Pristina to stop violating human rights and the freedoms of the Orthodox Serbs living in Kosovo BELGRADE, December 25. /TASS/. The authorities of the non-recognized ...

which has been the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church for centuries, and which his Holiness officially headed BELGRADE, December 26. /TASS/. The unrecognized Kosovo police have not allowed ...

Serb communities in parts of Kosovo ... to Serbian state broadcaster RTS. AFP was not able to independently verify the claim. In Gracanica -- home to a 14th-century Orthodox church seen as a ...

the Serbian Orthodox Church said the gunmen had left the monastery by night, Reuters news agency reported. The Kosovan police officer was killed before the occupation of the monastery. Kosovo's ...

The 90-year-old head of the Serbian Orthodox Church had led a large public funeral ... He was also bitterly opposed to Kosovo's unilaterally declared independence in 2008. Patriarch Irinej was ...

An additional 182 homes and two Orthodox churches or ... The historic monasteries of Gracanica and Decani are also housing displaced Serbs. Both the Kosovo Provisional Government (PISG) and ...

Graves at a Serbian Orthodox cemetery in Kosovo have been vandalised, police said on Sunday (14 July), in an incident that comes at a time of rising tension between Belgrade and Pristina.