On April 19, 2005 His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Pavle
received a delegation from the Ministry for Diaspora of the Republic of Serbia
Government including deputy minister Aleksandar Cotric, assistant Miodrag
Jaksic, and the president of the Church-School Council of the Church of St.
Michael the Archangel in Vancouver, Dr. Goran Stanisavljevic, in the Belgrade
Patriarchate.
The new church of St. Michael the Archangel in Vancouver, which was recently consecrated, together with a large Serbian Cultural and Spiritual Center, is a unique architectural complex worth some seven million dollars and built exclusively with the donations of faithful Serbs in Canada.
The delegation
presented His Holiness Patriarch Pavle with a plaque of the Church-School
Council in Vancouver, and a monetary donation for rebuilding the monastery of
Chilandar, collected from faithful in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
His Holiness said on this occasion that the Church shares its concern for the faithful in Serbia and abroad, and that he regularly calls on both to be good and honorable people, to live harmony with other peoples, and never to build their own fortunes on the misfortunes of others.
Mssrs. Aleksandar Cotric and Miodrag Jaksic emphasized that the Ministry for Diaspora enjoys good cooperation with the bishops and clergy of the Serbian Orthodox Church abroad, and that representatives of the Church will be among those involved in the drafting of a new Law on cooperation with the diaspora and the Emigrant Census Project.
Source: www.spc.yu