This is the Catholic priest who beat the bell during the war to remind Muslims of iftar time

This is the Catholic priest who beat the bell during the war to remind Muslims of iftar time

What is this bell at this unusual interval, had an international representative asked the priest? It is becoming a sign of respect shown to Albanian Muslim brothers who are sheltered in parish families, that it is time to spread Iftar's Sophary, Don Kelendur Spaqi had responded very gently. [...]

What is this bell at this unusual interval, had an international representative asked the priest? It is becoming a sign of respect shown to Albanian Muslim brothers who are sheltered in parish families, that it is time to spread Iftar's Sophary, Don Kelendur Spaqi had responded very gently.

Catholic priest Don Kelmend Spaqi, a parisher at the Church of “Saint Andout” in Glodjan, during the 1998-98 war, beat the bells to show the Muslims sheltered in the village families of Glogdjan, Nepola, Llugagji, and as far as echoing the sounds that it is iftar's time for those who fasted in the holy month of “Ramazan<3> For an international representative who was visiting the parish office, the bell sounds were intriguing at the time, but when I learned of the reason, it was impressed by the act and care of a Catholic priest for Muslim Albanians who make Iftar with church bells.

The Catholic priest has indicated that the notorious Serbian army had arrived in the village, and he was forced to take all villagers to church to protect them from murder and rape. Dom Spaqi even relates that sometimes Serbs had tried to enter the church to kill everyone, but the priest had demanded that he and the nuns be killed first and then the villagers.

 

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