{"id":159470,"date":"2025-01-16T17:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=159470"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:17:47","slug":"poverty-didnt-stop-them-residents-of-this-serbian-village-built-a-church-in-just-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/poverty-didnt-stop-them-residents-of-this-serbian-village-built-a-church-in-just-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"POVERTY DIDN\u2019T STOP THEM: Residents of this Serbian village built a church in just three months!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the mountainous village of Dulene, near Kragujevac, the residents decided to build a church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year ago, they began collecting funds, and within three months, they managed to construct the building. However, they now need further help and support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Epiphany, they are organizing a swimming event for the Holy Cross, followed by a donor lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fserbiantimes%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0dtGR8LBsuNPyky9ZaAZmEZx1RP2vfJbnaAsTXLdCmR13UwXXjAMVCWrdiS6bFjk3l&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are a small, poor village with limited resources, so we decided to help ourselves. We paid for two or three skilled workers, and the rest of the church was built through communal labor,\u201d said Dejan Milenkovi\u0107, president of the Dulene local community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He explained that from the foundation to the dome, the church was built in three months of collective effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was an example not only in \u0160umadija but throughout Serbia. People admired us from Bosnia to Croatia. Even Muslims from Bosnia sent us donations because they were so impressed. 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On Epiphany, they are organizing a swimming event for the Holy Cross, followed by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":159471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[237,4388,4389,4390,4391,3684,113,823],"class_list":["post-159470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serbia","tag-crkva","tag-izgradnja-crkve","tag-mestani","tag-plivanje-za-casni-krst","tag-selo-dulene","tag-seoski-zivot","tag-srbija","tag-zivot-na-selu","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159473,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159470\/revisions\/159473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}