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Church in the WorldCatholics offer to mediate over KosovoSerbia Jonathan Luxmoore - 15 March 2008The head of Serbia's Catholic Church has said Catholics can help mediate between Serbs and Albanians in an effort to settle disputes over the newly independent republic of Kosovo, writes Jonathan Luxmoore. "Our Church has always sought good relations between Albanians and Serbs, and between Muslims, Orthodox and Catholics, as well as dialogue between Christians of different denominations and between faiths," said Archbishop Stanislav Hocevar of Belgrade, president of Serbia's Sts Cyril and Methodius Bishops' Conference. The Slovene-born church leader was speaking as a local Serbian Orthodox bishop instructed followers to boycott Kosovo's institutions and avoid co-operating with the European Union's mission, amid continuing tensions over the country's 17 February declaration of independence. Speaking in Poland, Archbishop Hocevar said that Kosovo had a "special significance" for Serbs, as the place of origin of Serbian Orthodoxy and site of many important churches and monasteries. However, it should also be remembered, Archbishop Hocevar added, that the mostly Muslim Albanian population had been growing rapidly for decades, and that many Serbs had long since withdrawn under pressure, along with their Orthodox bishops. |
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