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

It is a pleasure to inform you that the HRH Crown Princess Katherine Foundation and the Lifeline Humanitarian Organization in partnership with the Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia, The Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region of the Serbian Government, Faculty of Medicine University of Belgrade, Serbian Medical Association, World Health Organization, and under the patronage of Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander II and Crown Princess Katherine, are organising the 4th Serbian Diaspora Medical Conference 2013 at the White Palace, Belgrade, 16-18 May 2013.

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After a very successful Conference that took place in June 2012 in Belgrade, Serbia, we would once again like to invite you to come and share your academic and professional experience with our medical doctors in Serbia. With your support the medical doctors in Serbia will have the opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with their colleagues, which will benefit the people of Serbia. We thank you in advance for your participation in this Conference and sincerely hope in achieving mutual success. The main idea behind the Conference is to establish a network between the medical staff of Serbia and Diaspora, and as a continuation of the last year’s conference.

Since we are aware of your extremely busy schedule, we are extending this invitation early in order for you to plan your attendance at Serbian Diaspora Medical Conference 2013.

Please fill in the attached form and include your short biography (up to 350 words) and email it as soon as possible to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

For all technical questions, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For all professional questions regarding the Conference, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

It would be wonderful if you could come to the 4th Serbian Diaspora Medical Conference 2013. Please extend this invitation to your colleagues. We look forward to hearing from you and to seeing you in May.

Dusan Babac
Director
HRH Crown Princess Katherine Foundation

From Serbian Diaspora Medical Conference web-site

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Sailors of the Sky

A conversation with Fr. Stamatis Skliris and Fr. Marko Rupnik on contemporary Christian art

In these timely conversations led by Fr. Radovan Bigovic, many issues are introduced that enable the contemporary reader to deepen and expand his or her understanding of the role of art in the life of the Church. Here we find answers to questions on the crisis of contemporary ecclesiastical art in West and East; the impact of Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract painting on contemporary ecclesiastical painting; and a consideration of the main distrinction between iconography and secular painting. The dialogue, while resolving some doubts about the difference between iconography, religious painting, and painting in general, reconciles the requirement to obey inconographic canons with the freedom essential to artistic creativity, demonstrating that obedience to the canons is not a threat to the vitatlity of iconography. Both artists illumine the role of prayer and ascetisicm in the art of iconography. They also mention curcial differences between iconography in the Orthodox Church and in Roman Catholicism. How important thse distinctions are when exploring the relationship between contemporary theology and art! In a time when postmodern "metaphysics' revitalizes every concept, these masters still believe that, to some extent, Post-Modernism adds to the revitatiztion of Christian art, stimulating questions about "artistic inspiration" and the essential asethetic categories of Christian painting. Their exceptionally wide, yet nonetheless deep, expertise assists their not-so-everday connections between theology, ar, and modern issues concerning society: "society" taken in its broader meaning as "civilization." Finally, the entire artistic project of Stamatis and Rupnik has important ecumenical implications that aswer a genuine longing for unity in the Christian word.

The text of this 94-page soft-bound book has been translated from the Serbian by Ivana Jakovljevic, Fr. Gregory Edwards, and Andrijana Krstic. Published by Sebastian Press, Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Contemporary Christian Thought Series, number 7, First Edition, ISBN: 978-0-9719505-8-0