Pristina forbade Patriarch Porfirije to visit the Patriarchate of Pec

The Serbian Patriarch Porfirije appalled by the news that the authorities in Pristina today forbade him to travel to the Patriarchate of Pec, which is the first and centuries-old seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the monastery of which the patriarch is the abbot, before the great feast of the Nativity of Christ, which is celebrated by the entire Christian world, the cabinet of Patriarch Porfirije announced.

As stated in the announcement, "Patriarch Pofririje does not give up his intention to serve divine service in the Patriarchate of Pec and expects that this extremely discriminatory decision will be repealed and that the trampling of the human rights and religious freedoms of the Orthodox Serbs living in the province, on the land of their ancestors, where the Serbian people have lived continuously for at least fifteen hundred years, will be stopped".

At the end, it is pointed out that "Patriarch Porfirije prays to God for peace and goodwill among all people, and especially prays for peace to prevail between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija, where they have lived together for centuries."