THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004200650010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 3, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1,, in Dece;nber 1949 the authorities demolished an old Orthodox Church in
Stars Futog, about 10 kilometers from Novi Sad. The dynamite used to
demolish the church also rendered the stone useless for building a
cooperative that had been planned. Simi.larly, in a villa,e about
15 kilometers southwest of Novi Sad the local church committee was ordored
to demolish its church and permit the material to be used elsewhere,
while the Orthodox Church in Vai jevo was destroyed under orders from the
local overn ment in November 1949. No church dam_ged during the -.,, r has
been reconstructed and many damaged buildings have been torn down and
the stone used elsewhere,
2. The z_onastary at dtavanitza-Sre:n has been taken over for an orphanage; the
Monastery at Beocin-Srena for a hospital for tuborculars. The UTonastery
atracanica, constructed in the 14th Century by :ling r"ilut a.n and
particularly sacred to Serbian Orthodox communicants, is now a hostel for
political meoti ngs