"A Ray of Hope for Kosovo," (Fall 2006) by Chrysoula Economopoulos is a fitting tribute to the wonderful work of the Decani Monastery Relief Fund and Archimandrite Nektarios Serfes. But all will be lost if the ongoing pressure within the UN to grant
independence to Kosovo is successful. That is why I call upon all Orthodox Christians not to let that ray of hope for Kosovo be extinguished.

Before I begin, I must put things into
perspective. What the Wailing Wall is to
Jews, what the Vatican is to Roman
Catholics, what Mecca is to Muslims,
Kosovo is to Serbian Orthodox Christians. It is Serbia's heart and soul. Now, due to the continuation of a flawed US foreign policy, if granted independence, Kosovo will become another terrorist-controlled rogue state and those few Serbs who remain will be condemned to once again live under their Islamic masters and tormentors.

As someone who has followed and
written about the events in the Balkans
for over a decade, I would like to impress upon all readers of The AHEPAN how dire and serious the situation is for our
Serbian Orthodox brothers and sisters inKosovo.
Please understand that the Serbs were
once the majority in Kosovo until Hitler's
Nazis ethnically cleansed hundreds of
thousands of Serbs from the region in
World War II. More Serbs were driven out of Kosovo by Communist Dictator Josip

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