Radio Glas: The Mission of the “Kinonia” Portal Over the Past Year

On Friday, 19 September 2025, the guest of the “Pirg” programme on Radio Glas of the Diocese of Niš was catechist Branislav Ilić, editor of the portal Kinonia. The interview was conducted by journalist Sandra Momčilović.

The occasion for the interview was the anniversary of the Kinonia portal, which was founded on the Feast of the Beginning of the Indict (the Ecclesiastical New Year) and the liturgical commemoration of St. Simeon the Stylite, on 1/14 September 2024.

The editor of Kinonia, catechist Branislav Ilić, spoke about the activities of the portal thus far, its contribution to theological thought, its significance for catechesis, and its role in the overall mission of the Church through information technologies. He also reflected on the numerous collaborators who contribute daily to this mission, as well as on the plans to, God willing, mark the second anniversary of this missionary portal, which has, in a very short time, justified its existence.

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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.