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Lecture Held on the Topic: “Empathy in Children and Its Importance”

On Tuesday, 23 December 2025, at the Primary School “Oslobodioci Beograda”, the third session in a series of professional lectures and public forums dedicated to the topic of parenting was held, entitled “Empathy in Children and Its Importance.”

The significance of empathy in the upbringing of children was addressed by Viktor Vicanović, Specialist in Psychology, with the support of the school psychologist, Nataša Arsović. Through concrete and everyday examples, parents were given the opportunity to become acquainted with ways in which empathy in children can be developed and nurtured.

Particular emphasis was placed on the importance of compassion as a foundational value in relationships with others, a point further illustrated by examples drawn from the New Testament, which testify to the importance of understanding and entering into the feelings of another person.

In the concluding remarks of the lecture, it was emphasized that Truth is essential in this aspect of interpersonal relationships as well. As the lecturer stated:
“Empathy without Truth is sentimentality, and Truth without love is condemnation.”

PHOTOS: Photo archive of the “Oslobodioci of Belgrade” elementary school

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Protopresbyter-Staurophorus Vajo Jović

Protopresbyter-Staurophorus Vajo Jović was born in 1956 in Ugljevik, Srpska.

Priest in Zagreb and Secretary of the Diocesan Board of the Metropolis of Zagreb and Ljubljana since 1979.
From Zagreb, he served the missionary parish in Maribor.
Parish priest at the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in Belgrade since 1991.
Since 2000, Elder of the same church and Director of the Orthodox Missionary School until his retirement in 2023.

Forty-two years of priestly service are characterized by intensive missionary work.

Recipient of the Order of St. Sava, third degree.

Protopresbyter-Staurophor Radivoj Panić

Protopresbyter-Staurophor Radivoj Panić is the coordinator of the Parish Mission Department of the Missionary Department of the Archbishopric of Belgrade-Karlovci. He was born on April 1, 1961 in Novi Sad. He completed the seminary in Sremski Karlovci in 1981.

From 1986 to 1991, he was engaged as a librarian at the Orthodox Theological Faculty in Belgrade.

He was ordained to the priesthood in 1992. He began his pastoral ministry as a parish priest in Kosova Polje, where he served from 1992 to 2001. After that, from 2001 to 2009, he was the parish priest at the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky, and since 2009 he has served as the parish priest at the Church of St. Sava. He completed his theological studies in 2008, at a time when he was already serving as a parish priest.

He is particularly involved in organizing pilgrimages to Kosovo and Metohija, as well as in humanitarian work. He collaborates with the organization “Our Serbs” from Chicago, through which he actively participates in providing assistance to the Serbian people in Serbia and Kosovo and Metohija, as well as in supporting domestic organizations operating in these areas.

Father Radivoj Panić is considered one of the most respected priests of the Archbishopric of Belgrade and Karlovac.