🇦🇱 ☪️ Kos Data: Albania is in the process of creating a liberal Muslim microstate, PM Edi Rama announced

The future "Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order", located in Tirana, would be about a quarter the size of Vatican City. Reflecting the tolerant values of the Bektashi Order, a Shiite Sufi group, the new state would allow alcohol, permit women to dress freely, and impose no strict lifestyle rules. Its goal is to promote a tolerant version of Islam.

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🇷🇴❌🇺🇦 The National Romanian Council in Ukraine (CNRU) accused the local government in Cernăuți of robbing the Romanian community of their churches!

The CNRU asks Bucharest to get involved and put pressure on Kiev to return the Three Holy Hierarchs Church (known to the Romanian community as the Metropolitan Chapel) which was seized by the local authorities under the pretext of it being a “historical monument” and “needing conservation” only for the Cernăuți municipal administration to quickly sign an agreement with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (schismatics) through which they gained permission to hold religious ceremonies inside its premises.

The CNRU recalls the significance of the Three Holy Hierarchs Church for the Romanian community in Ukraine because it was the first church post-Ukrainian independence in 1991 in which the Divine Liturgy was held in Romanian and was so for 33 years.

The CNRU calls on the Romanian Orthodox Church to do more to take over the remaining Romanian churches in Ukraine.

“For 30 years Kiev has been undermining the Romanian schools, they actively promoted the notion of a “Moldovan language”, they marginalised and kicked us out of public spaces and public administration now they are coming to steal our churches and instruct us when, how and who to pray to.

We firmly believe that the seizure of this church is a new phase of Kiev’s offensive against the Romanian minority, disregarding all forms of legislation present in the Ukrainian legal system, in blatant disregard of Romanian-Ukrainian bilateral agreements and in blatant disregard of European and international treaties and agreements

We urge Romania to take action and condemn the theft of the Three Holy Hierarchs Church (Metropolitan Chapel), a gesture contradicting the spirit and text of the 1997 Treaty of Friendship between Romania and Ukraine and other legal bilateral instruments between the two countries”.

The CNRU reiterates that the Metropolitan Chapel was built between 1881 and 1884 when Cernăuți was under Austrian administration using the funds and labour of the Romanian community in Bucovina. It was blessed by Metropolitan Silverstru Morariu-Andrievici who was buried in the crypt under the Church.

The last renovation work happened in 2017 and it was thanks to the generous donations of the Romanian community in Cernăuți and Romania proper through the help of the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bucovina.

From 1990 until October 2023, the Ukrainian authorities did not contest the legality of the activities at that church nor were they concerned about the “historic significance” of the Metropolitan Chapel with the CNRU reiterating that the seizure was done due to the ongoing 2018 Moscow-Constantinople Schism and the UOC-OCU dispute.

🔗 https://hotnews.ro/consiliul-romanilor-din-ucraina-acuza-ca-autoritatile-locale-au-furat-capela-mitropolitana-din-cernauti-dupa-ce-au-lovit-in-limba-romana-acum-ne-iau-si-bisericile-1783276

🇷🇴☦️🗣️🇺🇦 The Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) responding to a request for comment from Revista Rost, expressed its concerns regarding the seizure of the Metropolitan Chapel and supports the immediate return of the chapel back to the Romanian community!

BOR notes that despite the fact that the Romanian faithful în Cernăuți belong to a different Church (the UOC) and its not within BOR’s competence to petition the Ukrainian authorities to correct the error, BOR pledges to remain in solidarity with the Romanian minority in northern Bucovina and calls on Romanian authorities to take the necessary measures to support the ethnic Romanians and put pressure on Kiev to return the Church they confiscated.

🔗 https://www.rostonline.ro/2024/09/exclusivitate-patriarhia-romana-raspuns-la-situatia-capelei-mitropolitate-de-la-cernauti-nu-putem-ramane-nepasatori-fata-de-confiscarea-unui-simbol-identitar-romanesc-si-fata-de-incalcarea-libertat/

🇲🇩📄⚡️ The Chișinău Municipal Council is renaming the Alexander Pushkin street in Chișinău to Queen Mary (of Romania) Street.

De-Russification of Moldova continues as planned..

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🇷🇸🇦🇱 ☪️︎ Kos Data: Serbia's Muslim community has spoken out against the Bektashi microstate in Albania

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🇷🇸🇰🇪 Serbia's first lady, Tamara Vucic, in official visit to Kenya

This visit was a celebration of the traditionally friendly relations between both countries. As an example, Kenya has always supported Serbia in the non recognition of Kosovo.

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🇽🇰🟰🇮🇱 Yes or no?

🇷🇸 Serbia considers joining BRICS as an alternative to joining the EU

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🔴 🇲🇩❌🇪🇺 Moldova rejects joining the EU

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