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

U.S. Ambassador in Belgrade Michael Kirby opened in Belgrade late on Monday the exhibition entitled ‘The U.S. – from Serbian artists to the U.S.’ and expressed the belief that Serbia has a bright future, having in mind the quality and imagination of young Serbian artists.

Kirby said that during his mandate as the ambassador in Serbia, he had a chance to meet a rather large number of talented young people.

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У препуној великој сали Коларчеве задужбине одржан је концерт Београдске филхармоније под управом славног диригента Зубина Мехте.

На концерту и донаторској вечери, која је потом уследила, прикупљала су се средства за прву америчку турнеју Београдске филхармоније која је планирана на јесен следеће године.

Ово је пети пут у новом миленијуму да Мехта, чије име носи и Фондација Београдске филхармоније, предводи београдски оркестар, а на програму су била дела Франца Шуберта "Увертира за Розамунду" и 8. симфонија и Игора Стравинског Посвећење пролећа.

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Na završnoj sednici žirija za dodelu Nagrade „Stevan Sremac", koja je održana u Beogradu 19. aprila, žiri u sastavu Tijana Spasić, Snežana Božić i Vule Žurić, predsednik, doneo je jednoglasnu odluku da nagradu dobije Jelena Rosić za knjigu priča „Dan kada je Miz Lili postala ono što je oduvek bila", u izdanju beogradskog Arhipelaga.

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Obrazovno-istraživačko društvo Mihajlo Pupin, uz podršku Srpske akademije nauka i umetnosti i kompanije Telekom Srbija, premijerno je predstavilo Virtuelni muzej Mihajla Pupina u Galeriji nauke i tehnike SANU u Beogradu. Pored upoznavanja sa važnim i široj javnosti nedovoljno poznatim informacijama o Mihajlu Pupinu, Virtuelni muzej donosi i potpuno nov način predstavljanja naučne i kulturne baštine. Ulaskom u digitalno doba, omogućen je i pristup muzejima putem Interneta, koji ni na koji način ne umanjuje pravi doživljaj posete muzeju.

IRINEJ

by the Grace of God

Orthodox Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch,
with all the hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church - to all clergy,
monastics, and all the sons and daughters of our Holy Church:
grace, mercy and peace from God The Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
and The Holy Spirit, with the joyous Paschal greeting:

Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!

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ИРИНЕЈ

по милости Божјој

Православни Архиепископ пећки, Митрополит београдско-карловачки
и Патријарх српски, са свим архијерејима Српске Православне Цркве,
свештенству, монаштву и свим синовима и кћерима наше свете Цркве:
благодат, милост и мир од Бога Оца, и Господа нашега Исуса Христа,
и Духа Светога, уз радосни васкршњи поздрав:

Христос васкрсе – Ваистину васкрсе!

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It is a pleasure to inform you that the HRH Crown Princess Katherine Foundation and the Lifeline Humanitarian Organization in partnership with the Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia, The Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region of the Serbian Government, Faculty of Medicine University of Belgrade, Serbian Medical Association, World Health Organization, and under the patronage of Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine, are organising the 4th Serbian Diaspora Medical Conference 2013 at the White Palace, Belgrade, 16-18 May 2013.

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Dozens of people have run in the Serbian capital of Belgrade to express solidary with the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.

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Sailors of the Sky

A conversation with Fr. Stamatis Skliris and Fr. Marko Rupnik on contemporary Christian art

In these timely conversations led by Fr. Radovan Bigovic, many issues are introduced that enable the contemporary reader to deepen and expand his or her understanding of the role of art in the life of the Church. Here we find answers to questions on the crisis of contemporary ecclesiastical art in West and East; the impact of Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract painting on contemporary ecclesiastical painting; and a consideration of the main distrinction between iconography and secular painting. The dialogue, while resolving some doubts about the difference between iconography, religious painting, and painting in general, reconciles the requirement to obey inconographic canons with the freedom essential to artistic creativity, demonstrating that obedience to the canons is not a threat to the vitatlity of iconography. Both artists illumine the role of prayer and ascetisicm in the art of iconography. They also mention curcial differences between iconography in the Orthodox Church and in Roman Catholicism. How important thse distinctions are when exploring the relationship between contemporary theology and art! In a time when postmodern "metaphysics' revitalizes every concept, these masters still believe that, to some extent, Post-Modernism adds to the revitatiztion of Christian art, stimulating questions about "artistic inspiration" and the essential asethetic categories of Christian painting. Their exceptionally wide, yet nonetheless deep, expertise assists their not-so-everday connections between theology, ar, and modern issues concerning society: "society" taken in its broader meaning as "civilization." Finally, the entire artistic project of Stamatis and Rupnik has important ecumenical implications that aswer a genuine longing for unity in the Christian word.

The text of this 94-page soft-bound book has been translated from the Serbian by Ivana Jakovljevic, Fr. Gregory Edwards, and Andrijana Krstic. Published by Sebastian Press, Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Contemporary Christian Thought Series, number 7, First Edition, ISBN: 978-0-9719505-8-0