MOSTAR/SARAJEVO, March 6 (Hina) - Croatian and Bosnian Bishops' Conferences began a joint session in Sarajevo Wednesday discussing cooperation and various church issues. The talks also focused on the position of Bosnian Croat
Catholics, the Catholic News Agency reported. The host of the conference, Sarajevo Archbishop Cardinal Vinko Puljic, stressed that the Catholic Church is determined to stay in Bosnia-Herzegovina despite all the opposition it faces, the agency reported. "People have recently been facing arduous situations concerning security, return and stays. We are facing the problem of equality of all people in all regions, because if we request something we have a right to, they pronounce us nationalists," said Puljic. The cardinal said that during the past period more than 200 Catholic families left Bosnia for Sweden, while more than 30,000 Catholic Croats emigrated to Canada in the last two years. Ar
MOSTAR/SARAJEVO, March 6 (Hina) - Croatian and Bosnian Bishops'
Conferences began a joint session in Sarajevo Wednesday discussing
cooperation and various church issues. The talks also focused on
the position of Bosnian Croat Catholics, the Catholic News Agency
reported.
The host of the conference, Sarajevo Archbishop Cardinal Vinko
Puljic, stressed that the Catholic Church is determined to stay in
Bosnia-Herzegovina despite all the opposition it faces, the agency
reported.
"People have recently been facing arduous situations concerning
security, return and stays. We are facing the problem of equality of
all people in all regions, because if we request something we have a
right to, they pronounce us nationalists," said Puljic.
The cardinal said that during the past period more than 200 Catholic
families left Bosnia for Sweden, while more than 30,000 Catholic
Croats emigrated to Canada in the last two years.
Around 130,000 Croats have emigrated to overseas countries in the
past six years, he said.
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