| The world community should pay attention to the destruction of unique shrines and cultural monuments in Kosovo, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II told Serbian journalists on Monday. "Unique churches of the 13th-14th centuries on the UNESCO list are being destroyed in Kosovo and Metohija and nobody tries to stop it," the Patriarch said. To restore the unique half-destroyed monuments we need their security guarantees," he stressed. "We have forwarded relevant addresses to the UN and often made statements to foreign media but the problem is slurred over. Society acts according to double standards here," Alexis II noted. He also confirmed the fact of the Catholic Church's indifference to this problem adding that this was sad. According to some data, Albanian terrorists destroyed over 100 Orthodox churches, cathedrals and monasteries, including those of the 14th-16th centuries, more than 10,000 icons and other church utensils. |