Serbian Patriarch Porfirije has sent a letter to Pope Leo XIV, Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump, as well as other important European and global leaders, calling on them to prevent the implementation of the so-called law on foreigners imposed by Pristina.
13.03.2026. 17:27
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The letter was also sent to French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Friedrich Merz, as well as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UNESCO Director-General Khaled El-Enany, the Serbian Orthodox Church announced.
Patriarch Porfirije warned that the implementation of this law would not only jeopardize the functioning of the University in Kosovska Mitrovica, primary and secondary schools attended by Serbian students under the curriculum of their own state, as well as the entire healthcare system providing medical care to Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija, but also the survival of the Serbian people and Orthodox holy sites.
"By implementing this law, Serbs would lose the opportunity to receive education and healthcare, while employees in the education and healthcare sectors would lose their jobs, which would lead to an even more massive – if not final – departure of Orthodox Serbs from this centuries-old Christian land, where, to this day, there are around 1,300 Orthodox churches, monasteries and other Christian shrines, many of which had previously been destroyed", the Patriarch emphasized.
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AutorHe reminded world leaders that nowhere else in Europe – despite the previously mentioned destruction – does such a concentration of Christian holy sites exist in a single place, four of which are on UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger.
Patriarch Porfirije stressed that the Serbian Orthodox Church remains committed to seeking a peaceful solution and expects the Serbian authorities to do everything possible to find a compromise.
"Human lives are the greatest sacred value, and we are obliged to protect them", the Serbian Patriarch emphasized.
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Pristina has announced that the implementation of the so-called “law on foreigners" will begin on March 15, under which all those who do not possess documents issued by the provisional institutions in Pristina would be treated as foreigners.
It should be recalled that a day earlier, the youth wing of the New DSS asked the Patriarch and the Serbian Orthodox Church to become more actively engaged regarding the latest developments in Kosovo and Metohija.
In their letter, they stated that the authorities in Pristina are attempting through new laws to "exert additional pressure on the Serbian people,” and that by shutting down or integrating educational and healthcare institutions into their own system, the survival of Serbs on what they describe as their “holy land" is being endangered, the New DSS announced.
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