St. Nikolai Velimirovic’s Study Group Meets
Thursdays-BiWeekly
Begins 5th of November
7:00 pm at the SYNOD
Our Lady of the Sign Cathedral:
75 E 93rd Street, NY
1st Book We Will Be Reading:

“Mystery and Meaning of the Battle of Kosovo”
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Dear Brethren and Sisters:

A study group will commence to read the writings of St. Nikolai Velimirovic, one of the great Serbian Saints of the 20th century. During WWII, St. Nikolai Velimirovic suffered internment in Dachau, a Nazi Concentration camp. 750,000 Orthodox Serbs were imprisoned and killed by Nazi and Nazi sympathizers during WWII.

In St. Velimirovic’s series of books we will read of how Serbian culture became grounded in Orthodox Christianity and will be exposed to the idea of suffering as a podvig that a nation undertakes. In undertaking to study this great saint‘s writings, we learn to acquire an Orthodox perspective about war and political suffering in these turbulent yet hopeful times. Books can be purchased online at Bishop Nikolai Bookstore: http://bishopnikolaibookstore.com.


Email savekosvo_metohijanow@msn.com for more information. This Group is Blessed By the Very Reverend Bishop Jerome Shaw of The Russian Church Outside of Russia-Manhattan.




For Immediate Release

Contact:
Americans for Serbia 347 665 7164;
xenspirit7@msn.com

ROCOR Front Desk 1 212 534 1601

Kosovo in Context: Past, Present and Future
Bi-Weekly Thursday Class on Kosovo Begins 5 November 2009 at Synod in New York City

With the blessing of The Very Reverend Bishop Jerome Shaw of The Russian Church Outside of Russia-Manhattan, a bi-weekly study group will start in order to read the writings of St. Nikolai Velimirovic, one of the great Serbian Saints of the 20th century. During WWII, St. Nikolai Velimirovic suffered internment in Dachau, a Nazi Concentration camp. 750,000 Orthodox Serbs were imprisoned and killed by Nazi and Nazi sympathizers during this time. After his repose in the United States, St. Nikolai was canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church on the 19th of May, 2003.

We will begin with the book “The Mystery and Meaning of the Battle of Kosovo” because it introduces, uncompromisingly, the fact that God continues to intervene in historical events and thus, victory for Orthodox Christians is not driven by worldly criteria of exploitation, domination or thoughts of superiority but by the need of man’s salvation through the work of grace and our participation in it. Through study of the events of 1389, we will be able to place historical events within the eschatological and anthropological aspects of Orthodox Christianity, and thus provide a reference point for understanding what is occurring in the province of Kosovo today. This can be applied wherever Orthodox Christians are being persecuted by political forces within and outside of international law considerations.

Books can be purchased online at Bishop Nikolai Bookstore; http://bishopnikolaibookstore.com.

In addition, in St. Velimirovic’s series of books, we will read of how Serbian culture became grounded in Orthodox Christianity and will be exposed to the idea of suffering as a podvig that a nation undertakes. In undertaking to study this great saint‘s writings, we learn to acquire an Orthodox perspective about war and how to respond to political suffering in these turbulent yet hopeful times and our role as Christians towards our brethren and toward those we are commanded to Love. This will be a year long effort, and will take place at the Cathedral Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia located at 75 E 93rd Street. It will begin Thursday, the 5th of November 2009.

Mr. Gregory Elich agrees to return to Eugene, Oregon

When he returns the we hope to have a Serbian Unity Congress chapter here to welcome him. We will be employing new strategies to get the message out to the general public concerning Kosovo.

Trio Voronezh 11 May 2007 Eugene Central Lutheran Church 7:30 pm opening by Michael McCabe

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CREDIT CARD THEFT FORCES DELAY NEW DATE FOR SLIDE/PRESENTATION TALK WILL BE 18TH MAY 2007

P R E S S R E L E A S E

26 April 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:

xenia lynn teresa williams

americansforserbia.blogspot.com

541 345 1615

xenspirit7@msn.com

Credit Card Theft Forces Delay of Slide Presentation/Lecture

Gregory Elich author of Strange Liberators has had to postpone his lecture/talk which was set for this Friday 27^th of April, 7:00 at McKenzie Hall. He will instead be speaking at McKenzie Hall on the 18^th of May, 2007. Serbians in America have been quiet about the atrocities being foisted upon them in their homeland and here in the United States. All of this is being done in the name of Western Democracy. In Kosovo they are being divested of their homes , their livelihood , their culture, their religion. In the United States they are depicted as butchers and oppressors. But what is the true story? Is Milosevic the beginning and the end of what there is to know about the United States attempt to take Kosovo-Metohija away from Serbia and give it to the very people the U.S. is fighting in the Middle East?

Gregory Elich will be speaking about the effect of United States' foreign policy toward Kosovo-Metohija which induced the U.S. to violate International Law and the UN Charter in order wage a 78- day U.S. led and illegal NATO Bombing of the province. According to Mr. Elich events leading up to the carpet-bombing are not as cut and dry as the administration has led its citizens to believe. Furthermore, after the United Nations Mission In Kosovo established itself in the region, attacks against the Serbian, Roma and Jewish minorities increased whereby the Serbian minority in Kosovo have seen their rights eroding to worse than they were during the regime of Communist President Josip Broz Tito, when he allowed the Albanians to take over lands and city administration functions, severely limiting Serbians the right to free use of their language, their culture, their religion, even to obtain jobs. During this time was implemented forced displacement of Serbians from their homes while Albanians from Albania were encouraged by to move in and take what they wanted. US foreign policy is only continuing this oppression against the Serbian peoples.
But few people know this and Serbian-Americans have become the victims of a type of social genocide in the United States: no one wants to hear their side of the story.

P R E S S R E L E A S E

26 April 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:

xenia lynn teresa williams

americansforserbia.blogspot.com

541 345 1615

xenspirit7@msn.com

Nonetheless, an opportunity presents itself for a balance report of the events leading up to the NATO invasion of Kosovo-Metohija. In the forward to Mr. Elich's book Strange Liberators Michael Parenti writes:

"Using a wealth of historic evidence and revelatory analysis, deep research and eye-witness investigation, Gregory Elich treats what lawyers call the 'hard cases': Yugoslavia, Croatia, Zimbabwe, North Korea, and certain untouched questions about Iraq, issues that have been most thoroughly misrepresented in the corporate media and even by political commentators and activists who claim to be on the left. Elich wastes no time with genuflections to the dominant ideology. Instead, he sticks to the awful facts and glaring truths that compose the underlying reality of the U.S. global empire. He ties in his deeply informed case studies to the wider issues of U.S. imperial policy, the broader questions of war and peace, and the general crisis that faces the entire world and the planet's ecology itself. Thereby he performs a most valuable service to persons all across the political spectrum."

Michael Parenti, author of The Culture Struggle, The Assassination of Julius Caesar and To Kill a Nation

Recently Senator Gordon Smith co-sponsored Senate Resolution S RES 135 which along with H RES 36 and H RES 309 will allow the United States to recognise Kosovo Independence unilaterally in the case that the UN Security Council votes to reject such a move. What will Oregon's role be in this issue? Eugene students and residents will now have an opportunity to hear the other side, and then to make an informed decision.

Who: Gregory Elich What: What Really Happened in Kosovo-Metohija When: 18 May 2007, 7:00pm Where: 125 McKenzie Hall, 12^th & Kincaid , University of Oregon Contact: 541 345 1615; xenspirit7@msn.com

Strange Liberator authour Gregory Elich To Speak At U of O McKenzie Hall

P R E S S R E L E A S E

19 April 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

What Really Happened in Kosovo-Metohija?

Who: Gregory Elich What: What Really Happened in Kosovo-Metohija When: 27 April 2007, 7:00pm
Where: 125 McKenzie Hall, 12th & Kincaid , University of Oregon Contact: xenspirit7@msn.com; americansforserbia.blogspot.com

Serbians in America have been quiet about the atrocities being foisted upon them in their homeland and here in the United States. All of this is being done in the name of Western Democracy. In Kosovo they are being divested of their homes , their livelihood , their culture, their religion. In the United States they are depicted as butchers and oppressors. But what is the true story? Is Milosevic the beginning and the end of what there is to know about the United States attempt to take Kosovo-Metohija away from Serbia and give it to the very people the U.S. is fighting in the Middle East?

On the 27^th of April, 7:00pm at the University of Oregon, 125 McKenkie Hall. Gregory Elich will be speaking about the effect of United States' foreign policy toward Kosovo-Metohija which induced the U.S. to violate International Law and the UN Charter in order wage a 78- day U.S. led and illegal NATO Bombing of the province. According to Mr. Elich, author of Strange Liberators, events leading up to the carpet-bombing are not as cut and dry as the administration has led its citizens to believe. Furthermore, after the United Nations Mission In Kosovo established itself in the region, attacks against the Serbian Roma and Jewish minorities increased whereby the Serbian minority in Kosovo have seen their rights eroding to worse than they were during the regime of Communist President Josip Broz Tito, when he allowed the Albanians to take over lands and city administration functions, severely limiting Serbians the right to free use of their language, their culture, their religion, even to obtain jobs. Also during this time was implemented the forced removal of Serbians from their homes while Albanians from Albania were encouraged by the Tito regime to move in and take what they wanted. US foreign policy is only continuing this oppression against the Serbian peoples.
But few people know this and Serbian-Americans have become the victims of a type of social genocide in the United States: no one wants to hear their side of the story.

P R E S S R E L E A S E

00 April 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: xenia lynn teresa williams

americansforserbia.blogspot.com

xenspirit7@msn.com

Nonetheless, an opportunity presents itself for a balance report of the events leading up to the NATO invasion of Kosovo-Metohija. In the forward to Mr. Elich's book Strange Liberators Michael Parenti writes:

"Using a wealth of historic evidence and revelatory analysis, deep research and eye-witness investigation, Gregory Elich treats what lawyers call the 'hard cases': Yugoslavia, Croatia, Zimbabwe, North Korea, and certain untouched questions about Iraq, issues that have been most thoroughly misrepresented in the corporate media and even by political commentators and activists who claim to be on the left. Elich wastes no time with genuflections to the dominant ideology. Instead, he sticks to the awful facts and glaring truths that compose the underlying reality of the U.S. global empire. He ties in his deeply informed case studies to the wider issues of U.S. imperial policy, the broader questions of war and peace, and the general crisis that faces the entire world and the planet's ecology itself. Thereby he performs a most valuable service to persons all across the political spectrum."

Michael Parenti, author of The Culture Struggle, The Assassination of Julius Caesar and To Kill a Nation

Recently Senator Gordon Smith co-sponsored Senate Resolution S RES 135 which along with H RES 36 will allow the United States to recognise Kosovo Independence unilaterally in the case that the UN Security Council votes to reject such a move. What will Oregon's role be in this issue? Eugene students and residents will now have an opportunity to hear the other side, and then to make an informed decision.Who: Gregory Elich What: What Really Happened in Kosovo-Metohija When: 27 April 2007, 7:00pm

Where: 125 McKenzie Hall, 12^th & Kincaid , University of Oregon Contact: xenspirit7@msn.com