The official Announcement of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric:

Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric
Holy Synod of Bishops
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Court of First Instance in Veles has sentenced His Beatitude, Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje kyr kyr Jovan, in his absence, to a prison term of two years and six months for a criminal […]

Bitola, 01.06.2008
Subject : Request for the attitude of the Veles Public Prosecutor’s Office as
well as the Courts of Law having jurisdiction for dealing with the case No. C. 86/04 against the defendant His Beatitude kyr kyr Jovan Vraniskoski from Bitola
Filed by: Vasil Gjorgjiev, BL from Bitola, Macedonia, A-1/7 Scheherazade Mall, defence attorney
Honourable Madams/Sirs,
Criminal procedures had […]

This article was published by F18News on: 31 March 2008: http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1107

Macedonia’s new Religion Law – which comes into force on 1 May – is designed to prevent the Serbian Orthodox Church gaining legal status, church members have told Forum 18 News Service. It may also be used to discriminate against the Bektashi Muslim community. The […]

Today, 20 April 2007 His Beatitude, Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje kyr kyr Jovan was finally released from the prison “Idrizovo” in Skopje after the punishment period to a one-year imprisonment – as sentenced by a verdict of the Court of First Instance in Veles – was shortened. The Information Service of the […]

Maintaining the religious freedom is a fundamental right, and at the same time, a condition for the Republic of Macedonia in order to fulfill the criteria to join the Euro-Atlantic civilization currents. Unfortunately, Republic of Macedonia is continually violating the elementary religious freedoms of its own citizens and tax payers. In its last year report, […]

The Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor published the annual report on the situation with the respect of religious freedom in the Republic of Macedonia in the course of 2006.
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71394.htm
There is an impression that the greater art of the report has been dedicated to the denial of religious freedom to the citizens, […]

Republic of Macedonia displays rigid violations of the elementary religious freedoms of its own citizens. In the country, the old communist law for registration of religious communities is in force, which by protecting the monopoly of a certain religious community is thoroughly incompatible with the European legislature. Archbishop kyr kyr Jovan is in prison after […]

The Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA), which includes representatives of the High Clergy of the dioceses of the Albanian, Antiochan, Bulgarian, Carpatho-Russian, Greek, Romanian, Serbian, Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of America (http://www.goarch.org/en/archdiocese/organizations/scoba.asp) published an appeal on their web page for release from prison of Archbishop Jovan […]

Undoubtedly, the Orthodox Christians all around the world, consider Holy Mount Athos to be the topmost criterion in the spiritual life. As many learned people have noticed, Athonite monks of various nationalities and races for an entire second millennium give their authentic imprint on Orthodox Christianity. Many are the pilgrims who have experienced and express […]

Protocol No. 186 dated on 11th of December, 2006
Idrizovo Prison, Skopje
TO
the Prime Minister
of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia
Mr. Nikola Gruevski
Your Excellency,
At the beginning of the now passing year, that is almost a year ago, we have appealed to Your institution with a letter N. No. 1 dated on 3rd of January, 2006 pleading […]

SYOSSET, NY [OCA Communications] — In a letter dated December 1, 2006 and addressed to Nikola Gruevsky, Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Herman, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, expressed his deepest concern for His Eminence, Archbishop Jovan of Ohrid, who recently was imprisoned for the second time.
(http://www.oca.org/News.asp?ID=1118&SID=19).
In the […]

At the beginning of November, in the United States of America, an Internet petition was started for liberation of His Beatitude, the Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje, kyr kyr Jovan from the prison in Idrizovo (http://www.petitiononline.com/3001sd/petition.html).
Republic of Macedonia is the only country in the civilized world which displays rigid violation of the religious […]

IC/XC
NI/KA
The Archbishop Jovan Fund USA
Very Reverend Archimandrite Nektarios Serfes, President
2618 West Bannock Street
Boise, Idaho 83702
USA
Telephone 208-345-6147 Email: father@serfes.org
Fax: 208-345-6147

Fax: +389-2311-2561

3 November 2006

Prime Minister Nikola Gruevksi
Bul. Illinen bb
1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia FYROM

Dear Mr. Prime Minister Nikola Gruevksi,

Humbly I greet you with the peace and love of our Lord God, and […]

Make a choice, if you are a person of good will, to whom are important the most basic principles of the free world, and with your signature of this petition, which you can read bellow this text, and in that way you will make your contribution, toward realization of civil rights, or just be a […]

Recently, the deputy of the assistant secretary in the American Bureau for European and Euro-Asian questions, Rosemary di Carlo, was staying in a working visit in Republic of Macedonia.
She pointed out unambiguously that the obligations which Republic of Macedonia should fulfill so as to become a candidate for membership in NATO are the following: judicial […]

The statements made by the bishop of MOC, Agatangel are dangerous as for the state, so for MOC, since they stir religious hatred, declared the judge Valentin Zafirov.
It is being confirmed that Archbishop Jovan and the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric do not stir and spread religious hatred, but MOC does.
“Macedonian orthodox church” (MOC), residing in […]

I have an impression that the entire Orthodox youth in Macedonia has left the MOc.
I saw that the Ohrid Archbishopric does not present a peril to the Macedonian state.
Using the language of the world, MOc makes the best marketing propaganda for the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric.

Recently Professor Yuri Maximov from Moscow stayed for a few-day visit […]

A New Number of the American Periodical “The Orthodox Word”

Recently (February 2006), during a visit of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric hieromonk Damascene (Christensen) from St. Herman of Alaska monastery, California, USA was staying in the Republic of Macedonia.
Among monastic activities, hieromonk Damascene is known to the public by his exclusively remarkable book about […]

Archimandrite Nektarios (Serfes) is staying on a two-day visit in Republic of Macedonia. Despite of having problems by the Macedonian police (his American passport was kept and examined at the police station, when entering our country), he speaks optimistically about better times, which are expected by the citizens of Republic of Macedonia.
Archimandrite Nektarios […]