New Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the Republic of Serbia, Francesco Amoruso, who was recently appointed to that position, visited Amb. Avramović in the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia to the Holy See and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta on November 6, 2024. The two ambassadors have discussed potential grounds of further cooperation. They reconsidered in particularly how to denote the 1885 event when the Sovereign Military Order of Malta donated to the Princedom of Serbia a sanitary train for transportation of the wounded during the sc. Serbian-Bulgarian War at the just opened railway Belgrade-Nish. Reconsidered was also an idea to print a postal stamp in memory of 140 years of that event.

At the invitation and in the organization of the prestigious international association “Carità politica", the Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Holy See, Dr. Sima Avramović, held a lecture "Interreligious Dialogue in Serbia" on October 16 in the Vatican Palace of St. Callistus. Federico Lombardi, president of the Vatican Foundation "Joseph Ratzinger - Benedict the Sixteenth" and the Ambassador of East Timor to the Holy See Chloe Sylvia Tilman Dindo also took part at the meeting.

Amb. Avramović explained the historical, cultural and geographical context of interactions of different religions on the territory of Serbia, as well as the development of religious freedom legislation since the first Serbian Constitution of 1835. He profoundly highlighted solutions of the actual Law on Churches and Religious Communities of 2006 as he was a member of the drafting committee. He highlighted important role of leading legal experts belonging to different religions from Italy, Germany, Greece and the USA in all segments of the legislative process. He particularly stressed responsive cooperation with the representatives of seven traditional churches and religious communities in Serbia during the five years long law-drafting procedure, as well as importance of their cooperation in justification of religious education in public schools, as a very solid ground for an intensive and successful interreligious dialogue

He revealed and illustrated that sc. Kosovo is the only vulnerable area in terms of religious freedom, particularly due to constant attacks on the Orthodox churches, monasteries, cemeteries and believers since the “Pogrom” of 2004 until today.

Pope Francis, during the regular Sunday prayer (Angelus), announced the proclamation of twenty-one new cardinals at the Consistory, which will take place on December 8, 2024. Among them is Msgr. Ladislav Nemet, Archbishop of Belgrade, who will thus become the first cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church from the Republic of Serbia. Cardinal is the highest title (other than the papal) in the Roman Catholic Church, and these dignitaries become part of the College of Cardinals. This is an exceptional recognition for Msgr. L. Nemet, the Belgrade Archdiocese, as well as for the Republic of Serbia, and carries a special importance in the year in which the centenary of the Belgrade Archdiocese is celebrated.