----- Original Message ----- From: Fr. Nektarios Serfes <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greetings in our Lord, May the great peace and love of our Lord God always be with you! At the 9th hour each of us more then any other time need to humbly offer our humble prayers for Kosovo/Metohija, Serbia! Politics for many of us in the region especially those who are currently seeking Independence in the region simply give many a head-ache! At the same time all of us should have grievous concerns for every ethnic background that exist in this vast region -so many people are at stake at this hour, and especially our Holy Orthodox Church and it's Serbian citizens. The Serbian population is not being highly considered and that is the lost of their farms, their homes, their businesses, their churches, their monasteries, or their cultural centers -all taken away from them simply because they are Serbians! If the tanks, the peace keeping troops, and the barbed wire where to come down that surrounds almost every Serbian Orthodox monastery and many churches it will be the last hour for these sacred and holy places. What we will then have then is martyrdom of it's inhabitants of these Serbian Orthodox holy monasteries and holy churches! We will then have New Martyrs of Kosovo, Serbia to commemorate! Doesn't anyone care or care to understand? If the barbed wire of the Serbian villages and schools are to come down and the peace keeping troops where to leave the region -it will be the end of these villages and schools! Doesn't anyone care or care to understand? Promises that they will be protected will go unnoticed after awhile and protest will begin that the property of these holy monasteries, churches, villages, and schools do not belong to them but to the Independent people of Kosovo! Is this what we do then to create or have independence is first destroy that which is around you and then say it's theirs -as tomorrow will be your last hour! What we will experience in the days ahead is the hour of betrayal and constant false promises shall be at our door step all because power and glory is sought in the region among those who will do anything to gain more land that which is not theirs but of all the citizens in the region. What we will also experience shall be the ideals on paper will mean nothing to those who are in power because those who support these ideals will continue onward with their destruction of human life, and it's religious heritage! What can we do at the 9th hour? Pray, pray, pray, pray, and cry for Kosovo, Serbia that Kosovo is Serbia (all 15% of Serbia) and that every human being has the right to exist and live as human beings and to be free citizens! What we can also do is to allow those who have been forced out of Serbia especially thousands upon thousands (estimated close to 250,000) have been forced to leave Kosovo, now have the right to return back home. These matters should be on the table of discussion and sadly they are not! We have no discussions about peace and good will among all men and the only discussions are that Kosovo should be independent? What we can also do is to remind others that more then 150 destroyed Serbian Orthodox Churches and Monasteries be rebuilt by those who destroyed them in the first place. What we can also do is to remind others that the constant destruction of Serbian Orthodox cemeteries be repaired, and that the bodies that have been pulled from their graves be honorably respected and that these cemeteries be repaired by those who destroyed them at this hour. What we can also do is to remind others and ask the simple question: where are the abundance of missing Serbian citizens in particular the men, women, and children in Kosovo/Metohija? Where is the head of Hieromartyr Hariton, and where is the body of Father Stefan? We must cry and appeal that Kosovo/Metohija, Serbia remains intact and that we begin to understand one another by working together and helping one another as honorable citizens living as a free people no matter what their ethnic background! Let Kosovo, Serbia be and let those who do not love Serbia finally realize that the hour before us can only bring further pain and sufferings to the region when it's told that it would be better if it was independent or taken away to those which it belongs to in the first place: Serbia! Pray for Serbia! Be strong Serbia! Cry for Serbia! Let Serbia be free! Please now take the time to read the attached! Pray! Peace to your soul! Humbly in Christ our Lord, +Very Reverend Archimandrite Nektarios Serfes Who prays for you! USA _____ From: Father Milovan Katanic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 4:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Holy Hierarchical Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church February 3, 2007 Belgrade PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE For over more than a thousand years Kosovo and Metohija have been inhabited by Serbs, and in its day, until the great migrations of the Serbian people, it was exclusively inhabited by Serbs. Everyone knows if they want to that it was the center of the medieval Serbian state and the cradle of Serbian culture, and that it is there, in the Patriarchate of Pec, to this day that the first and central see of the Serbian Orthodox Church stands. In the sense of statehood, Kosovo and Metohija are validly, under international law, an integral part of Serbia. The valid Treaty of Bucharest from August 10, 1913 attests to this as well as the dozens of resolutions of the General Assembly and Security Council of the United Nations, the Paris Agreement from 1995 and various other legal acts of the European Union, Russia, USA, Great Britain, Germany, France Everyone knows all of this, but a politician by the name of Marti Ahtisaari does not know this, or it will probably be that he does not want to know it. Without a single word of explanation, even deceitful, he suggests that, contrary to all the norms of international procedure, Kosovo be usurped from Serbia. Actually, he suggests that Serbia, an internationally recognized sovereign state, be legally assaulted. He does not recognize the power of law but the right of power. What unequalled breadth of democracy, not to mention justice! Contrary to this, the Serbian Orthodox Church has always clearly and vociferously held that justice keeps countries and cities and that everything that is taken away is cursed. Would Mr. Altihaarsi adapt his ingenious plan of resolving a crisis on his own country? The Serbian Orthodox Church has no objection that he gives to whomever he desires that which is his but it cautions him that no one ever authorized him nor could they have authorized him to give anyone Kosovo and Metohija. In keeping with the legal process in effect in the world, the status of Kosovo and Metohija is set forth: The Province is an integral part of Serbia. This status can only be altered with the approval of Serbia and insofar as its constitutional system were changed. Altihaarsi, assuredly, is neither authorized nor indebted for such a role. The Holy Hierarchical Synod appeals to those responsible individuals who lead the international community in deterring Altihaarsi from his dangerous intentions of forcefully seizing, in someones name, from Serbia, one of the oldest European countries, the most precious part of its territory. The peaceful future is not built on the right of the more powerful, on the dictate of might, but on validating principles so that each side has an equal honor and opportunities. Granted, power does not pray to God but that is why God does not like power. Thereby, God is eternal while all power is in time. Holy Hierarchical Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church _____ No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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