A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Pilgrimage to Mount Athos, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro & Herzegovina

June 24th to July 8th 2013

Join His Grace Bishop Maxim, Bishop of Western America and Fr. Blasko Paraklis of Orange County, CA on a fascinating guided tour of famed Mt. Athos in Greece, and Serbia, including Kosovo, Montenegro and Hercegovina. The tour will include many beautiful Orthodox churches and monasteries, overnight stays at various monasteries, veneration of holy relics, an audience with His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and visits to major attractions in Thessaloniki and Belgrade. Men will spend four days on Mount Athos, while the women take a cruise around Mount Athos and enjoy 4 days in a beautiful resort near the city of Uranopolis.

The approximate cost of the trip is $1,800.00, which includes accommodations, ground transportation and some meals, plus the airfare, which may vary, depending on your point of departure.

To express your interest and for more information, please contact Fr. Blasko at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or call (949) 830-5480.

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Nick Vujicic

Nick Vujicic

Nicholas James Vujicic (/ˈvɔɪtʃɪtʃ/ voy-chich; Serbian: Николас Џејмс Вујичић, Nikolas Džejms Vujičić; born 4 December 1982) is a Serbian Australian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterised by the absence of all four limbs. As a child, he struggled mentally and emotionally as well as physically, but eventually came to terms with his disability and, at the age of seventeen, started his own non-profit organisation, Life Without Limbs. Vujicic presents motivational speeches worldwide, on life with a disability, hope and finding meaning in life. He also speaks about his belief that God can use any willing heart to do his work and that God is big enough to overcome any and all disabilities.

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Serbian Americans: History—Culture—Press

SERBIAN AMERICANS: History—Culture—Press

by Krinka Vidaković-Petrov, translated from Serbian by Milina Jovanović

Learned, lucid, and deeply perceptive, SERBIAN AMERICANS is an immensely rewarding and readable book, which will give historians invaluable new insights, and general readers exciting new ways to approach the history of Serbian printed media. Serbian immigration to the U.S. started dates from the first few decades of 19th c. The first papers were published in San Francisco starting in 1893. During the years of the most intense politicization of the Serbian American community, the Serbian printed media developed quickly with a growing number of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications. Newspapers were published in Serbian print shops, while the development of printing presses was a precondition for the growth of publishing in general. Among them were various kinds of books: classical Serbian literature, folksong collections, political pamphlets, works of the earliest Serbian American writers in America (poetry, prose and plays), first translations from English to Serbian, books about Serb immigrants, dictionaries, textbooks, primers, etc.