Sacraments of the Serbian Orthodox Church

The Serbian Orthodox Church loves Kosovo as a whole, while Serbian politics at least loves the municipal administrations through the formation "Srpska Lista" together with (some) internationals who strongly want the institutionalization of Serbia in Kosovo through the "Association of Serbian Municipalities", and in their totality together we find serbization, as a national issue of the Church and the Serbian state over Kosovo

The well-known symbiosis that the state supports the Church and the Church protects the state, in Orthodox countries, has been known since Byzantium. Throughout history, the Orthodox Church has played a fundamental role in the creation of national and state identities, even in countries like Greece, Serbia and Russia, as Orthodox countries, the Church remains an actor in politics and a factor in state power. The Serbian Orthodox Church (Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva) strongly continues to remain involved in political and public life in Serbia, as a permanent entity for the continuity of the Serbian national identity, while politicians as transients, therefore it also takes a role in determining political orientations. The same symbiosis is also in the Russian Federation, where the Russian Orthodox Church (Ruska Pravoslavna Crkva) openly praised the decision and supported President Vladimir Putin for the so-called "special military operation" in Ukraine! 

The Russian and Serbian Orthodox Church specifically are also political agitators in the region. There are countless cases in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Perhaps it should be brought to attention the events of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, playing the agitator, where through practical actions in the organization of rallies to minimize the state power of the time, they succeeded in overturning that political composition to pave the way for coming to power of the then pro-Serbian and pro-Russian opposition. 

The events in the city of Cetinje during the autumn of 2021, and then the signing of the "Fundamental Agreement" in August 2022 between the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije and the Government of Montenegro, led by Prime Minister Dritan Abazović!, which agreement contains immunities, privileges and rights, which constitutes a "sui-generis" status within the constitutional and legal system of Montenegro, where the Serbian Orthodox Church is not subject to state legal mechanisms, and takes ownership as property owners by being recognized and the right not to be subject to standard legal processes. The situation becomes more difficult when the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro undermines the Montenegrin identity by claiming all Churches as Serbian and considering Montenegro as the second Serbian state or as "Serbian Sparta"; naturally, inevitably, it does this with the state power of Serbia. This symbiosis, Church-State, is related to the ideology of Saint Sava on the basis of which the nationalism of the Serbian nation is exercised closely between the Church and the state. The Serbian and Russian Orthodox churches together have historically supported the implementation of coordinated activities in the promotion of state policies, as well as regional organizations with Russian elements, such as the so-called "Cossack Army" which even in 2016 was organized for liturgy in the Church of Saint Nicholas in Kotor, Montenegro, to strengthen the narrative of Russian-Serbian-Montenegro brotherhood; and precisely for this concern about Russian influence in the region, the European Parliament in March 2022 has approved a Resolution, deeply expressing concern that the Russian and Serbian Churches promote certain activities in the region.

The Serbian Orthodox Church does not want peace with the Kosovo of the Albanians and others who live here, therefore even today, when Kosovo and Serbia, according to the Soviet narrative, are asked to create "normalization of relations", the main obstacle remains the Serbian Orthodox Church, which, among other things, there is also an interest for the conflict to continue and for hatred to be inherited from one generation to another. 

The sanctities of Serbian political initiatives always bring back to our memory the sanctity of mass murders, violations and genocide in the spaces of our region by the Church, throughout the century that we left behind, in particular! Even, as a parenthesis, the Serbian Orthodox Church has specified objects and areas with special status and special protection, 44 sosh, where there are no clergy and monks, but which is claimed to be created "Church-State" within the state of Kosovo! This devouring is claimed by the Serbs in order to appropriate Albanian antiquity and justify it as Serbian. Alicia Kearns, the former chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the United Kingdom, in June 2023 disclosed information of particular importance, revealing the smuggling of weapons from Serbia, using ambulances from certain parastatal structures to hidden in the Serbian Orthodox Church; where the military aggression on September 24, 2023 by Serbian para-state groups and the massive weapons found in the Banja Monastery in Zveçan showed again clearly that Serbia is not only a sponsor, but a co-organizer and responsible, together with the Serbian Orthodox Church!
Perhaps two issues should be considered, the revision of the issue of the extraterritoriality of the Serbian Church as a national and state necessity and the establishment of the Orthodox Church of Kosovo, which, according to historiography, existed before it was appropriated by the Serbs; because the civil state of Kosovo is seriously threatened by our northern neighbor, the Orthodox Serbian state, which is really violating our independence.

The Serbian Orthodox Church loves Kosovo as a whole, while Serbian politics at least loves the municipal administrations through the formation "Srpska Lista" together with (some) internationals who strongly want the institutionalization of Serbia in Kosovo through the "Association of Serbian Municipalities", and in their totality together we find serbization, as a national issue of the Church and the Serbian state over Kosovo.

(The author is an expert on International Relations).