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20.11.2020. 08:10 – 20.11.2020. 08:30
During the enthronement, Serbian patriarch Irinej said: “It is customary for the patriarch to present his program when he takes the throne. I don’t have a program, my program is the program of our holy Church. I am weak and hope to feed the church together.”
Patriarch Irinej, Photo: Tanjug Sava Radovanovic
In one of the last interviews granted by Patriarch Irinej in August, he spoke, among other things, of Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic. “When the young President or Prime Minister Djukanovic was brought to the Patriarchate in 1998, I do not remember his role at that time, he was presented as the future, a strong perspective of the Serbian people. He also spoke and spoke thus then. And today, sadness It overwhelms me when “I see how deep human decline can be. Negotiate and negotiate with these people? Looking for the possibility of a compromise with these people? I don’t believe in that, “Irinej told Politika.
“When it comes to the so-called Storm, which is celebrated by our closest neighbors, but also in principle in connection with war victories in general, we remember how our modern saint Justin Popovic, not only thinking of Croatians or Germans, Shiptars, but also in other English, the Russians, and us the Serbs, says: “Wars are defeat after defeat, not victory. People are dying, inventing wars and murders as a means of defeating evil in this world. “And I add: can a state win a war by expelling and destroying its own people? Of course not. At least when they find out. that for these 250,000 Serbs, trains and buses full of young people leave every day for western countries, not only North Dalmatia, Lika, Banija, Kordun, but also the rich Slavonia. Places to celebrate when the flower of youth goes to you to build other people’s cities, plow other people’s fields, treat other people’s children … More than two decades have passed, and both nations still experience the consequences of the war there: social, psychological, economic, that they celebrate if they believe that they have something, but I pray and appeal to the Croatian state and church leaders, as well as the political and spiritual leaders of our people, to do everything possible to eradicate hatred and peace between the two peoples.
“The position of the Church in Montenegro is worse than during the Ottoman occupation, and the situation of the Serbs is like at the time of the notorious fascist creation of the Independent State of Croatia. Unfortunately, the position of the Serbs in Croatia is no better even today. Perhaps that hostility in Montenegro is not as it was among the Ustash, but unfortunately there is hatred between the people. “
“The division of Kosovo and the new borders, which some are talking about, are not an acceptable solution for the Serbian Orthodox Church, but also for the majority of the population. Serbia without Kosovo and Metohija is not Serbia. As when a man is taken from his heart, he is no longer a living man. “
“When they return the property to the Church, it will also pay taxes, as companies and other owners are obliged to do.”
“We can create many things, but life is only given by God. That is why those who do not allow life to be born commit a great sin. Great sin is murder. So do not kill the life that God gives, because children are great Gift from God”.
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