The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, has said that attempts are being made to portray Serbs as “perpetrators of genocide,” while stating that they are “victims of many genocides and ethnic cleansings.”
He made this statement while discussing a resolution sent to the UN, calling for the declaration of an international day of genocide in Srebrenica.
In his Easter address, Porfirije also said that Kosovo is the “cradle and home” of the Serbian people.
Kosovo is “both the cradle and our home.”
“In Kosovo,” he said, “in Old Serbia, our living and fallen are there. There are no dead. We are the Church of the living. We are a Christian people, the people of Calvary and Resurrection. We are a people with a Christian identity expressed through monasteries, which make up the richest crown of temple prayers in the world, a crown we have woven in Kosovo. And this is the truth about what stands on the mountain! Here intertwine our past, present, and future,” Patriarch Porfirije said.
“Because for us, this holy land is not an ordinary territory, but precisely the holy land from which our ‘field of dry bones’ will awaken and be resurrected,” he expressed.
The Patriarch called on the Serbian people to pray and always be “with the suffering brothers and sisters in Kosovo.”
“With those who are targeted by violence just because they are Orthodox Christians, Serbian Orthodox, because they are alone. They live in the so-called peace, in a ‘peace’ where there is no freedom, in a ‘peace’ where there is only fear and injustice,” Patriarch Porfirije declared.
