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| Canmak | Ok folks there is a website out there called Forum 18.....they always seem to bash the Macedonian Orthodox Church in all the articles they post up about the Macedonian Orthodox Church in regards to the Serbian Orthodox Church, I urge you all to write to them. (this is the site of Forum 18 www.forum18.org/) Here is my email I wrote to them: Greetings, I have been to your website on many occasions to read articles regarding the Macedonian Orthodox Church and every time I go, there seems to be a bias in your reporting against the Macedonian Orthodox Church. It seems to me that Forum 18 has forgotten its goals of and I quote directly from your website: The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief You seem to have forgotten about the Macedonian citizens and the ethnic Macedonians who happen to be part of new countries and communities world wide, rights to believe, worship and witness, their right to change ones belief or religon and their right to join together and express ones belief. It is the Macedonians who choose not to belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church, It is the Macedonians who rioted in the street when they thought that the Macedonian Orthodox Church was going to go under Serbian jurisdiction again. This is not about religion as much as the Serbian Orthodox Church likes to pretend it is, this is about politics and the destruction of a Macedonian state. You tend to post up articles about how evil the Macedonian Orthodox Church or the Macedonian Nation is but yet you didn't post nothing up when the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church stated that all those that follow the Macedonian Orthodox Church will be going to hell, I ask you why is that. Why haven't you posted anything up from the MOC in regards to this situation with the Serbian Orthodox church. Forum 18 to me and to many others world wide is nothing but a propoganda tool, I do not think that is your intention but the damage is done. I ask you to present the side of the Macedonians as well and all of us who follow the Macedonian Orthodox Church, ask yourselfs why we are not in communion with other Orthodox Nations? Ask yourselfs why would a leader of a Orthodox Church say that the followers of another Orthodox Church are going to hell. Again I repeat your Forum 18 goals of : The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief I ask you where is mine as well as all the other Macedonian Orthodox Church followers rights, are we not worthy for your cause? Is your group a group that is discriminatory? Please when you present one side make sure all the facts are straight and make sure that you present both sides with out a bias in the reporting. I believe that is Forum 18 intention but I have yet to see it on the Macedonian Orthodox Church issue. Another thing is those Armed Gun man that is stated in the lates article (posted Sept 23, 2004) on Macedonia has never been proven, there is reason to believe that the incident was a falsehood but yet there is no mention of that. I would also like to point out the politics of the Regions.....to the North of Macedonia there is a political religous organization that is trying to deny the Macedonian Orthodox Church's right to exist (A church none the less that is older then the Serbian one) to the south of Macedonia there is a nation that refuses to call Macedonia by its constitutional name and calls it FYROM (which Forum 18 pointed out so at the bottom of its latest article regarding the Macedonian Orthodox Church) and on one side it has a neigbouring country which refuses to recognize the ethnicity of the Macedonian people. In all of these countries there is only ONE National Orthodox Church with out a mirror orthodox church in the same country from another country.....why is that? You seem to only state in your article that the Macedonian nation is the only nation to do that, but it is the same across the Balkans, yet there is no articles on that in Forum 18, nor is there any mention of that fact when you post up articles regarding the Macedonian situation Regardless below I have pasted the links of letters and articles from the Official Site of the Macedonian Orthodox Church (starting with the first post on the MOC website regarding this issue to the latest posts regarding this issue) I urge you to read the side of the Macedonian Orthodox Church and to understand what the followers of the Macedonian church are going through right now because of this aggression being done by the Serbian Orthodox Church: http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=20 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=43 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=48 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=49 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=50 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=51 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=93 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=113 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=127 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=137 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=160 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=171 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=172 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=175 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=177 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=178 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=180 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=182 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=185 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=186 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=205 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=223 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=228 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=229 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=236 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=395 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=412 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=418 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=419 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=423 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=425 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=433 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=443 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=453 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=505 http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=512 MY DOCTOR SAYS I AM FINE....IT'S MY OTHER PERSONALITIES THAT HAVE THE PROBLEMS |
| Strelec | Bravo Canmak!!! |
| Ceki | Da super napisano! Nekoj raboti i jas ne znaev. --------------------------------------------------------------------- the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church stated that all those that follow the Macedonian Orthodox Church will be going to hell --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| dejan | bravo canmak. taa SPC zaboravile koja im je majcinska crkva. |
| dejan | uste nesto drugo. In the 10 commandments from God, one of them states that you should respect your neighbour. I not only see this as respecting somebody who lives right next to you, but also a neighbouring country. Serbia does not respect Macedonia, therefore it is breaking one of the 10 commandments of God. Ako oni se tolku vo religiijata, togas ke ne priznavat nas, a ne da ne ponizuvat. |
| Canmak | They replied: Many thanks for your message to Forum 18 News Service, of which I am editor. I must first of all stress that Forum 18 News Service takes no position on the validity or otherwise of various Orthodox jurisdictions (just as it does not for other faiths). We begin from the starting point that individuals have the right to choose their faith freely. This choice includes the freedom to meet together with others in communities which they choose. In Macedonia, there are communities of believers which wish to be part of the Serbian Orthodox Church. This is their right, just as it is the right of others who wish to be part of the Macedonian Orthodox Church to be so. If believers choose to be subject to the Patriarchate of Antioch or any other Patriarchate, that is equally their right. It is wrong for any state to restrict that right. There are many states in the world where several Orthodox jurisdictions have legal recognition and function freely, among them Russia, Ukraine, Austria and Sweden. In our article of 23 September we detailed some of the problems believers in Macedonia belonging to the Serbian Orthodox Church have been facing. We did not cover the situation for believers of the Macedonian Orthodox Church in Macedonia because we are not aware that they currently face any problems practising their faith freely. If you are aware of any violations of the right to religious freedom for believers of the Macedonian Orthodox Church – whether in Macedonia or in other countries – please let us know. With best wishes Felix Corley Editor, Forum 18 News Service http://www.forum18.org |