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Crouching Priest, Hidden Monk

February 15, 2010
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Two words: monk brawl. Video. (ok, that’s three words)

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Good Mourning, Serbia

November 19, 2009

Or should that be – good grief?
The late Patriarch Pavle was a modest man, often using the public transportation to move about.

His church colleagues, however, are not that modest. Being a priest in Serbia often means one enjoys life more than one’s profession recommends. Street reporters have managed to snap this photo of couple [...]

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Serbian Patriarch Pavle dies

November 17, 2009

Serbian Patriarch Pavle died yesterday, aged 95. What this means for Serbian Orthodox Church is that a new leader must be chosen in next three months, according to the Church’s law. For Serbian state, the first visible sign of Patriarch’s death is proclamation of three day mourning period, during which the Republic Broadcasting Agency decided [...]

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The Pope Visit to Serbia – Delayed Until Further Notice

April 10, 2009

Serbia is one of the few European countries still not visited by the Pope. It’s not a big deal, if you ask me – what’s more important to me personally is that the Stones were here and now the AC/DC are coming. The thing is, I should not be so selfish and think only of [...]

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Marble Heads

March 16, 2009

Update on the traditional churches vs human rights law saga.
Some complaints by the churches have been implemented by the government, but the churches are still not satisfied. The article about free expression of one’s sexual orientation is really pissing them off.
Here’s a bit from what they have to say in a new written [...]

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Discriminate Thy Neighbour

March 12, 2009

Main topic of the past several days in Serbia (besides celebrity Big Brother and Eurosong contest, that is): the anti-discrimination law and the problem it created for the traditional religious organizations in Serbia – Serbian Orthodox Church, the Catholic Church, the Islamic Community of Serbia, the Evangelical Church, the Christian Reform Church, the Christian Evangelical [...]

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Serbian Orthodox Church for Obama – update: whew, it’s a prank

October 24, 2008

Church signAgain, i received this one on email – possibly photoshopped, but I wouldn’t be surprised about anything coming from the US side of Serbian Orthodox Church. Good thing is that the Church knows which candidate is better, but I’m not sure if they know exactly why.

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Firecrackers & Broken Clocks: Delayed Christmas in Serbia

January 7, 2008

So, for those of you from Outer Space, not particularly familiar with our little Serbian Julius Cesarian Orthodox Delay, today, on the 7th of January, is when the vast majority of Serbian citizens celebrate Christmas, that is – all those belonging to the Serbian Ortodox Church, still a bit skeptical about the common, Gregorian calendar.
I [...]

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Dragan Markovic Palma – a man or a tree?

June 3, 2007

Ladies and gents, I present to you: Dragan Markovic Palma, head of Jagodina municipality and a pre-election coalition partner of our prime minister, Vojislav Kostunica.
Palma on culture
Question: who is your favorite singer? Translation follows.

DMP: My favorite singer is Ceca. Ceca is a singer who managed to gather most of her fans in one place – [...]

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Top Ten Distinctive Features of Serbian Homophobia

May 21, 2007

I wanted to write about this couple of days ago, on the international day against homophobia, but i guess it would have been too predictable, like writing about women rights on 8th of March. Besides, it’s always a burning subject, not just here in Serbia but everywhere in the world where GLB and other sexual [...]

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Cultural Melting Pot

May 4, 2007

Probably you remember the articles about Ganja March, Stormfront forum, the hooligans and the internet fights. Instead of a recapitlation on those articles, it seems that i will rather have the unfortunate opportunity to see all those cultural groups at the same place tomorrow – Republic square, Saturday 5th of May, 15:00. How come?
Well, it [...]

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The Serbian Identity

December 20, 2006

Couple of events led me to write this blog. One of them and the most influential one is that at the moment I am reading the book from Vladeta Jerotic about the Faith and the Country.
The question I pose to myself is how far should Serbia go in accepting the “new age” or the globalization [...]

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2006 Political Retrospective

December 13, 2006

Now as 2006 is nearing to an end, the political life of Serbia was turbulent, thus it earns to take a look back on what marked our political life thoughts throughout the last year:
Many things happened, many interesting, exciting and depressing, optimist, unusual, nostalgic and confusing.
One of the most significant things that marked the last [...]

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European Heritage Days in Belgrade, Serbia

September 7, 2006

European Heritage Days (Dani Evropske Bastine in Serbian) is a international event with 20-something year old tradition. It’s aim is to give the citizens a chance to visit monuments, buildings and palaces of national importance and value that are closed to them the bigger part of the year.
Another important goal of the event is to [...]

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