In the municipality of Zubin Potok in Kosovo, three Orthodox churches have been looted since the beginning of the year
Last weekend, the Church of St. John in Donji Varaga was broken into and looted in the Serbian enclave of Zubin Potok.
The Chancellery for Kosovo and Metohija under the Government of Serbia reported this, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
An Albanian was arrested in Zubin Potok on suspicion of a series of attacks on SOC churches. Last weekend, the Church of St. John in Donji Varaga was looted, and in previous weekends, the Church of the Holy Fathers in the village of Zupce, as well as the Church of the Ascension in Yagnenica. Money and other valuables were stolen from churches, and church relics were thrown out.
“This attitude of members of the Albanian community towards places of worship of the Serbian Orthodox Church is a reflection of the political actions and messages sent daily by political leaders in Pristina, as well as a new confirmation of the threat to Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and Metohija.
When there is no clear and unambiguous political commitment in Pristina to respect and foster religious diversity and tolerance, we see on the ground all kinds of attacks on Orthodox churches,” the Office for Kosovo and Metohija said in a statement.
The department also notes that since the beginning of this year, the negative trend of increasing ethnically motivated attacks against Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, their private property, and now SOC churches has continued.
Three Orthodox churches have been looted in Kosovo's Zubin Potok municipality since the beginning of the year.