Croatia: Church again vandalized with Ustaše graffiti

Petrinja, Croatia, May 5, 2022

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A Serbian Orthodox church in the central Croatian town of Petrinja was vandalized yet again.

The Church of St. Spyridon the Wonderworker has been a target countless times. This time, graffiti with fascist Ustaše symbols was painted on the walls of the church sometime in the night between May 2 and 3, reports p-portal.net.

Photo: smushcdn.com Photo: smushcdn.com The church has “shared the martyrdom of its people” throughout its 237-year history, the outlet writes.

The original Church of St. Sypridon in Petrinja was built in 1785. The church was ordered to be demolished by the Ustaše in 1941. A new church was built in 1976, but it was also demolished in 1991. Construction of the third church began in 1994 but was interrupted the next year, and the walls were bulldozed by Petrinja city authorities in April 1997. The few remaining believers were forced to worship in the parish house, until late last year when the first Liturgy was served in the new church, which is still under construction.

This latest incident was immediately reported to the police, who launched an investigation.

“We remain in the hope that the perpetrators of this anti-civilization act will be found and prosecuted, in order to clearly state that such and similar acts inspired by hatred are not a mirror of the multiethnic society in which we live and should not become a rule of conduct,” said parish priest Fr. Saša Umičević.

An Orthodox church at a popular pilgrimage point in Croatia was robbed last November.

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5/5/2022

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Comments
Panagiotis5/7/2022 4:39 am
How sad that these punks do this. I want my Serbian Brothers to know that all of the Orthodox People support them, especially the Greek People and the Russian People. I remember when we were all United as Orthodox Brothers, when Western Powers tried to decimate and destroy the Serbian People. I remember when millions of Greek People took to the streets to support the Serbian People, and they blocked the highways and roads so Western Powers could not use Greece as an invasion point to invade Serbia/Yugoslavia. The Serbian People did nothing against the West, but they had a knife stuck into their back, just like the Greek People had a knife thrusted into their back by the West when Turkey invaded Cyprus. God Willing we will become united again after these problems in the Ukraine are resolved......Ustase was founded as a Croatian supremacist and Catholic supremacist organization. Hundreds of thousands of my Serbian brothers and sisters, including children and elderly, were killed by Ustase animals, and others were converted by force to the Catholic Church. Now many years later in the USA, it has become public knowledge that many Catholic priests are homosexuals, pederasts, or pedophiles. Catholic supremacists no longer stick their noses up in the air and look down on the Orthodox. Like the weak protestants, many of their churches are becoming empty. Glory be to our God! THOXA SI O THEOS! .... Just my humble opinion.
José vers5/5/2022 5:01 pm
Por Cristo ,basta de matanzas y asesinatos entre hermanos ortodoxos , mueren madres. OS ,abuelaS BASTa ya de asesinatos
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