Kosovo Ministry of Culture has placed the church in Gornji Strmac under protection, too

The Ministry of Culture in the Kosovo Government has placed the church in Gornji Strmac under protection, too, as seen in a document obtained by Kosovo Online.

Earlier, some Albanian-language media reported that it was a Roman Catholic church, although images inside the temple show only icons of Serbian Orthodox saints.

According to information from Serbian Orthodox Church circles, Kosovo Online learns that this is a similar attempt to create discord between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, as was the case in 2018 when, at the initiative of the then authorities in Pristina, a Catholic mass was served on the foundations of the Orthodox Church in Novo Brdo.

Let us remind that Dragisa Mijacic, the coordinator of the National Convention on the EU for Chapter 35, stated on the social network "X" that the Albin Kurti regime planned to declare another Orthodox church in Kosovo as Catholic.

"The next target of Kurti's government is the Orthodox church in Gornji Strmac (Perkovac), the municipality of Zubin Potok, which is also falsely claimed to be Catholic. These unprecedented and uncivilized actions in the Christmas days perfectly describe the reality of today's Kosovo," Mijacic wrote.

The Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Raska-Prizren stated two days ago that the Ministry of Culture in Kosovo, without the approval of the Serbian Orthodox Church, had begun the "restoration" of the Orthodox church in the village of Gornje Vinarce in South Mitrovica and declared it "Catholic," all with the intention, as they claim, to appropriate the heritage of the Serbian Orthodox Church.