US again hits Kurt's Osman for religious freedoms, mentions statements on Decani Monastery

Also mentioned in the report are the statements by Prime Minister Albin Kurti and President Osmani against the Constitutional Court Act on the Decani monastery issue. Substantial areas in the report have also taken on the issue of not allowing participation in schools for covered girls, as well as the fact that the Assembly has not yet approved the law regulating the judicial status of religious communities.

Constitutional Decision, Decani Monastery

The government again failed to implement a 2016 Constitutional Court decision recognising KOS ownership of land around the Decani Monastery. The KOS criticised comments by senior government officials, including President Vjosa Osmani and Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who rejected the court's basics of decision as <x1politically irresponsible and dangerous”, said among other things in the report.

It noted that American embassy officials continued to encourage Government to respect the Constitutional Act on the Decani Monastery, and to regulate legal status for religious groups.

The US Embassy's “office officials continued to encourage the government to adopt legislation allowing religious groups to gain legal status, implementing mechanisms to protect freedom of trust, implementing laws and judicial decisions involving the Serbian Orthodox Church, religious objects, and resolve property disputes of the Serbian Orthodox Church.”, the report said.

The report also mentions how the American Embassy has organised table discussions on interreligious dialogue, calling for tolerance.

The report also mentions 64 incidents with naval targets. 64 incidents were reported in total, according to this report.

Police reported 64 incidents targeting religious objects of 42 Muslims, 21 KOS, and a Catholic in the first nine months of the year.

It is cited how the Orthodox Church had reported the attack on a group of pilgrims coming from Serbia to Kosovo.

The Serbian Orthodox Church said that a group of Serb pilgrims, citing security concerns and the precedent past, called for a police association in June to visit the remains of a church damaged during the 1999 war in Mushouste/Musutist (Suharek/ Suva Reka. According to the KOS, police rejected the request, citing unrecognised administrative reasons. Thereafter, pilgrims canceled their visit

The report also mentions the attack on Lupch village hoja.

In July, three people attacked Lupc village imam in its Podujevo mosque. Police arrested three people under suspicion of attempted murder. ”

That's where the demographic statistics, which are the same since 2011, are mentioned, and the fact that these figures no longer believe any of the religious entities.

The majority of Kosovo Albanians are Muslims, even though some are Christians (orthodox, Catholic or Protestant). Almost all Kosovo Serbs belong to the Orthodox faith.

Most of the Ashkali, Bosniaks, Egyptians, Gorani, Roma and ethnic Turks are also Muslims, while most ethnic Montenegrins and some Roma are Christians or Orthodox. Almost all ethnic Croats are Catholic.”, Nacional writes.

School Coverage

The report mentions the fact that some schools continued to deny the assets of girls covered with headscarves, specifying the occasion when a director in the Gjakova municipality set a stop sign for them.

“According to BIK, some schools continued to deny access to Muslim girls tried to go to school with hyjab as a result of implementing arc administrative law. THE essay that prohibits religious dress on school property. BIK reported, however, that some school principals allowed students to return to school and wear hijab. In March, a Parliament deputy posted to social networks that a high school in the Gjakova municipality had set up a sign showing hyjab of other forbidden items, including weapons, tobacco and makeup.”, it says.

The report cites the fact that a petition was initiated in Kosovo that collected over 30,000 signatures for allowing headscarves to have unhindered access to schools, as well as the request of these citizens to change administrative instruction, which is used as reasoning in cases of preventing access to covered girls.