Serbia Protests Reclassification of Kosovar Monuments as 'Byzantine Albanian'

The Serbian government is blocking a Kosovar initiative in UNESCO to reclassify historic Serbian Orthodox monasteries and churches in Kosovo as 'Byzantine Albanian' monuments. The move comes as the Kosovar regime has undertaken a sweeping rewrite of its history, recasting the founder of the Serbian Empire and the nobleman who killed Ottoman Padishah Murat during the Battle of Kosovo Polje (among others) as ethnic Albanians. More here.

"OCA Truth" Unsure of the Definition of Propaganda

The writers behind the OCA Truth website that has been running a smear campaign against the hierarchy of the American Orthodox Church (OCA) has issued another response to the recent publication of their identities. In it they write in part that they have been "snarky and sarcastic...this is a blog. It's not journalism, it's advocacy." This was said despite their earlier claims to have "no interest in publishing propaganda" or anything not "100% true." Interesting :-).

Meanwhile, and much more significantly, the joint meetings of the Holy Synod and Metropolitan Council of the OCA are winding up today in Chicago. So far both the spring session of the Holy Synod and its joint meeting with the Metropolitan Council have no publicly published results beyond the release of Fr. Joseph Fester from his duties as rector of St. Nicholas' Cathedral in Washington, DC.

ROCOR Clergymen Call for Full Access to Russian State Archives

Bishop Agapit (Gorachek) of Stuttgart and other clergymen of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia have called on the Russian government to allow historians complete access to the country's state archives to end the falsification of history begun under the Soviet regime. More here.