Demonstrators set up blockades on main roads ahead of planned inauguration of new head of Serbian Orthodox Church. Protesters have clashed with riot police in the old capital of Montenegro, setting up blockades before the inauguration of a new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the small Balkan nation. Montenegrin state RTCG TV said the protesters broke through a …
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BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbian Orthodox Church bishops elected an ally of the country’s populist president Thursday as the new leader who is succeeding the church patriarch who died after contracting the coronavirus. Bells tolled on the sprawling Saint Sava Temple in Belgrade where senior Serbian bishops met to announce Metropolitan Porfirije as the new patriarch of the highly influential church. …
LITTLETON, Colo. — The thick-bearded priest lowers himself into a defensive stance, inviting the shaky ball-handler in front of him to confess all of his basketball sins. “I told him to elbow you on the first possession,” says Slobodan Radisa, one of the game’s original members. He is an inspiration to all of us.” When Jokic agreed to a five-year, …
