Irinej of the Serbian Church expresses claims on Kosovo: Independent Part of Serbia

The Serbian Orthodox Church remains of the opinion that Kosovo is an inevitable part without which Serbia is not Serbia, Patriarch Irinej told Nova.rs. It just came into focus then. We have to fight for that territory and we have to find a way to keep it in our country. Power steals places and cities, [...]
It just came into focus then. We have to fight for that territory and we have to find a way to keep it in our country. Power steals places and cities, but what's stolen from it can recover one day.” Kosovo is the best evidence of this because it was under the Turkish for a long time, and yet it was released”, Irinej said.
He stressed that Kosovo forms foundations, without which “Serbia is not Serbia”.
He just came to our attention then.” In that area are our greatest shrines and shed great blood from Vidovdan to this day “, he said, describing Kosovo as” a holy place with which the entire history of the Serbian people “is linked.












