Silence of the Western media
One of the most painful aspects of Kosovo Golgotha is the fact it is so carefully hidden in the West. Living in Canada for ten years now, I have yet to see a news report where the scandalous number of churches razed to the ground in "post-war Kosovo" is at least mentioned, where someone will ask questions about 3400 Serbs missing since the official end of war, where a reporter will report about the murders and carnage Albanians rule by in Kosovo today and where a western reporter will inform the public about the ongoing horrors Kosovo Christians are subjected to by Albanian Muslims - horrors that include old people dying of hunger in towns where no Albanian will sell them food, Christian villages driven to starvation by cutting off their electricity and water for months at the time, blasting off schools, throwing grenades into family backyards and free-range shooting exercises where people are killed when they step out on their fields to plow the land.
Feeding Orthodoxy to a jihadist devourer
Surprising as it may be, Kosovo Crucifixion is leaving Vatican, Roman Catholics and a greatest majority of Protestant theologians and pastors silent and unmoved, as if the barbarous inhumanity to their Eastern Christian brothers does not concern them. Truth be told, it is only the most recent time the Western Christianity has unveiled its distrust and, in some cases, an open animosity towards Eastern Church, allowing the gorging of Orthodox churches and monasteries in Kosovo to continue unnoticed and thus feeding the Orthodoxy like a sacrificial lamb to a jihadist devourer.
Real valor and courageI believe real valor and courage oftentimes demand far more from us then one brave feat, a single act of selflessness in dramatic circumstances. They are sometimes as simple and prosaic as doing what has to be done on a daily basis, regardless of the obstacles. It is a kind of integrity and courage epitomized by a farmer who plows his land even though the bombs are exploding nearby, but he toils away unflinchingly because it is spring, a time to plant the seeds or many will starve come winter (such people were recorded throughout Serbia during NATO bombardment that began on March 24, 1999 and many Serbian farmers continue to risk their lives in the same way in Kosovo nowadays); a type of virtue exemplified in simple villagers traveling miles through dangerous Kosovo fields, carrying in their pack just one carved and sanded block of stone each, to help rebuild their destroyed church; a kind of bravery embodied in every one of those Serbs remaining in Kosovo who choose to stay put each morning they wake up when it would be so much easier to leave once and for all, and a special kind of courage a brethren of humble Orthodox monks epitomize when they gather for daily prayer and worship, chanting in clear and crystalline voices, steadfastly invocating their heartfelt prayers for salvation of all, like pouring pure water over soot, amidst the toxic fumes of hatred and mayhem. | |
Martyred Orthodox Church in Kosovo remains triumphantWhile the thirst for justice continues without relief, the Church, as promised, remains triumphant: "...I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matthew, 16:18) - a martyred Orthodox church in Kosovo with her bishops, priests, nuns and monks who are refusing to pick up and run with their lives, who are painstakingly rebuilding each destroyed church and monastery and tirelessly doing what needs to be done no matter what: serving God and His people, praying for us, baptizing and burying, providing refuge, giving alms and helping those in need, suffering and sacrificing alongside her people and, above all, witnessing the abomination for the world at large, for the history and eternity. Svetlana Novko, | |
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