The SPC (Serbian) website reports today that Serbian Patriarch Irinej spoke with representatives of diaspora in the parish house of the St. Sava Memorial Cathedral in Vracar on July 5, 2010, and told them not to forget their origin and roots -- and to revive, strengthen, and maintain the relationship with the mother country.
Minister of Diaspora, Srdjan Sreckovic, thanked Patriarch Irinej for blessing the work of the Assembly of the Diaspora and the Serbs in the region, and said that the state and church in the future would work together to preserve the cultural, linguistic, and religious identity.
He added that the church and state were separated -- yet together -- as they existed for the people.
According to Sreckovic, the Serbian Orthodox Church has long been a uniting factor and the primary foundation of the whole nation, including those times when the state did not regard the diaspora as a partner and ally -- but as an opponent.
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