Decani Monastery (file photo)

US State Department published its annual report on the respect of religious rights worldwide. On Kosovo, the report states that the Kosovo government has in general respected religious freedoms.

The report says that the Kosovar constitution which entered into force on 15 June of this year, assures religious freedoms, and other laws and policies contributed, in general, to a free observance of religion. The government respects religious freedoms, and there was no significant change during the period covered by this report.

Commenting on the events in Serb-populated northern Kosovo especially after Kosovo's declaration of independence on 17 February, the report says that social discrimination and violence seem to in general have been motivated by ethnic reasons, and that close association between religion and ethnicity makes it hard to discern if the developments were motivated by ethnic or religious animosity.

Kosovo Albanians are majority Muslim Sunni and Sufi and a small but active Catholic minority. Serbs are Christian Orthodox. Other minorities such as Bosniaks, Roma, and Turks are Muslim as well. Kosovo also has a small but growing Christian Protestant population.

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bill said:

... Serbians minority HAVE the best rights in the Europe, however their churches are still attacked? btw, i was unaware that they HAVE the best rights. Very interesting. I always figured that the Sweeds, or Danes, or English or French, or anybody else from a wealthy country would have better rights. I mught be wrong ofcourse. I should move to kosovo and claim to be serbian so that I can have glorious rights too.

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Nexhat Domi said:

	... Serbians minority HAVE the best rights in the Europe.
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