A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Anketa o životu mladih

Kancelarija za saradnju sa dijasporom koja radi pri Službi za poslove gradonačelnika Niša pokrenula je istraživanje u kome bi trebalo da, putem interneta, učestvuje 100 ispitanika iz dijaspore i 100 iz matice, starosti od 18 do 35 godina.

Ovo istraživanje sprovodi se sa ciljem da se prikupe informacije o tome kako život mladih u dijaspori utiče na procenu njihovog zadovoljstva životom i socijalne i emocionalne usamljenosti, kao i kakve su te procene kod mladih u Nišu.

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"Kod nas gotovo i da nema istraživanja u ovoj oblasti, a smatramo da je veoma važno posvetiti pažnju mladima i u dijaspori i u Nišu, njihovim raznovrsnim problemima, a naročito različitim aspektima njihovih života. Poređenje ove dve grupe može da nam ukaže na to da li su mladi u dijaspori, gde imaju veće mogućnosti za lični razvoj, zadovoljniji svojim ličnim životom, emocionalno i socijalno zreliji, ili su usamljeni, jer žive daleko od sredine iz koje su potekli", pojasnila je Tamara Ćirić, šef Kancelarije za saradnju sa dijasporom Grada Niša i pozvala mlade ljude da učestvuju u istraživanju popunjavanjem online upitnika koji se nalazi na sajtu Kancelarije i na brojnim forumima i društvenim mrežama.

Ova kancelarija već je sprovela istraživanje u kome je učestvovalo blizu 1200 posetilaca Sajma knjiga u Nišu, a koje je pokazalo da građani Niša imaju pozitivan stav o pripadnicima dijaspore, kao i o saradnji Republike Srbije sa svojim rasejanjem, ali je pokazalo da su mladi ljudi, u velikom broju slučajeva, neiformisani o ključnim pitanjima o dijaspori.

"Jedan od prevashodnih zadataka Kancelarije za saradnju sa dijasporom u Nišu i dalje će biti informisanje građana Srbije o životu i radu u inostranstvu, kako bi se podigao nivo svesti o ovom pitanju. Rezultati koje ćemo dobiti ovim istraživanjem, ali i brojna istraživanja dijaspore koja smo planirali, biće osnova za buduće analize i konkretne aktivnosti, što bi, na kraju krajeva, dovelo do smanjenja „odliva mozgova", dodala je Ćirićeva.

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Maja Herman - Sekulić

Maya Herman (Maja Herman - Sekulic) is a well-known Yugoslav writer and internationally published author, translator, editor and journalist.

In 2000, she finished her first novel Kralj svile , (published in Serbian by Narodna knjiga, Mega hit ed., Belgrade), which immediately became a bestseller. It was nominated in 2001 for an award as the best novel of the year (“Zensko pero”, Bazar, Belgrade), and in 2002 it appeared in the 2nd print with a new cover. In Search of The Silk King is the new, expanded English version of the story.

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On Divine Philanthropy

From Plato to John Chrysostom

by Bishop Danilo Krstic

This book describes the use of the notion of divine philanthropy from its first appearance in Aeschylos and Plato to the highly polyvalent use of it by John Chrysostom. Each page is marked by meticulous scholarship and great insight, lucidity of thought and expression. Bishop Danilo’s principal methodology in examining Chrysostom is a philological analysis of his works in order to grasp all the semantic shades of the concept of philanthropia throughout his vast literary output. The author overviews the observable development of the concept of philanthropia in a research that encompasses nearly seven centuries of literary sources. Peculiar theological connotations are studied in the uses of divine philanthropia both in the classical development from Aeschylos via Plutarch down to Libanius, Themistius of Byzantium and the Emperor Julian, as well as in the biblical development, especially from Philo and the New Testament through Origen and the Cappadocians to Chrysostom.

With this book, the author invites us to re-read Chrysostom’s golden pages on the ineffable philanthropy of God. "There is a modern ring in Chrysostom’s attempt to prove that we are loved—no matter who and where we are—and even infinitely loved, since our Friend and Lover is the infinite Triune God."

The victory of Chrysostom’s use of philanthropia meant the affirmation of ecclesial culture even at the level of Graeco-Roman culture. May we witness the same reality today in the modern techno-scientific world in which we live.