The Theotokos icon on my altar and it's origin

Since I love things Serbian and a strong Orthodox Christian, let me share something about the Theotokos icon on my altar. Yes, it is a Serbian Orthodox icon. The name of the icon is: "Bathing of the Christ."

Where does it come from? Simple.... Let me take everyone on a history lesson.

Our Lady of Ljeviš (Serbian: Богородица Љевишка/Bogorodica Ljeviška) is a 14th-century Serbian Orthodox church in the town of Prizren, located in southern Kosovo. It was converted to a mosque during the Ottoman Empire and then back into a church in the early 20th century.


The construction of the church was commissioned in 1306–9 by Serbian King Stefan Milutin. It was built on the site of the ruins of an earlier Byzantine church, whose original name Metera Eleousa was preserved in Slavic as Bogorodica Ljeviška.
In 1990 Serbia designated it a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance, and on 13 July 2006, it was placed on UNESCO's World Heritage List as an extension of the Visoki Dečani site (named Medieval Monuments in Kosovo), which, as a whole, was placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger. The Church was guarded by KFOR after June 1999. However, it was heavily damaged by arson during the 2004 unrest in Kosovo. Around 35 Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries have been destroyed or damaged, usually by arson, including medieval holy sites.
A group of experts sponsored by Serbia has visited the church on several occasions to assess the damage, but no concrete steps have been taken. The church is subject to constant looting -- even construction material, specifically lead, have repeatedly been stolen from the roof.

Like all churches and monasteries in Kosovo, it was badly damaged during the 2004 attacks(1999 it wasn't attack) and the icon itself was almost burned. 

If I have the money and Kosovo will be returned to Serbia, I hope to send money and help restore the countless churches and monasteries there, including the said icon. Only God knows when time will come for it.

No one gets outraged with these!

For sometime, I thought of articles that would fit to people's liberal ideas but it's not on my mind though. Things liberals won't even be outraged of because for them, these things are nothing to them. Take in mind back in 2004, when the Our Lady of Ljeviš icon was damaged or the church that housed it was burned, damaged and as of this day, it hasn't been restored to full importance.

Crkva Svetog Ilije or Saint Elijah Church in Podujevo was destroyed last 2006, rebuilt. It was this church that was shown in a lot of YouTube videos that was attacked by Albanian extremists who even shouted Allahu Akbhar while destroying it but people doesn't care since for the new world, religion is nothing but a thing of the past.

This one is one of the most horrifying things I would say about the World's ignorance. On February 16, 2001, a Serbian bus bound for Gračanica from Niš exploded via a remote controlled bomb inside on of the bus of 7. Take note that they are well guarded by British and Swedish KFOR envoys. 11 died instantly. Those Albanians who were caught for admitting the crime were either freed or escaped prison and no one cares.

One of the things I am discussing since the Syrian Civil War, what appears to be the United States supporting their ISIS and Sunni extremist friends is causing not just the Shiites to be killed but Sunnis, Yazidis and most of all Christians. Christians lived side by side with the Jews, Muslims(Sunnis but more freely with Shiites), Yazidis and others before the Syrian rebels tried to make a revolution for themselves. What happened is the persecution of every Christian, Yazidi, Shiite, Sunnis who never supported the ISIS and Obama that seemed to calloused to me since in Syria, the Greek Orthodox Christians support Bashar Al-Assad or see their lives destroyed with either the rebels or the ISIS. So does in Iraq that Kurds have to take over their own territory. But no one cares again.

In Ukraine, a nun named Sister Alevtina of Kiev's Florivsky Convent was killed by strangulation and that same day, a priest named Fr. Roman Nikolaev of the Church of St. Tatiana in Kiev died after gunshot wounds and fought for his life three days prior. It could seem that the deaths were, they are under the Moscow Patriarchate since there are churches in Ukraine proper that are aligned with Moscow's Patriarch Kiril and acting outside of political ifnluence, which churches outside of it are aligned with the government or some extremists who hate Russians or Ukrainians who doesn't align themselves with Poroshenko and others are deemed unfit to live despite their obvious non-alignment.

As I said, no one gets outraged but people who has the wisdom will recognize these things since it would define their views on the current situation in this world.