ZAGREB ARCHBISHOP FORWARDS EASTER MESSAGE

ZAGREB, March 26 (Hina) - Man can give life to another man but he can also sentence another man to death with hatred, and even more frequently, with indifference, Zagreb Archbishop Josip Bozanic said in his Easter message on Tuesday. #L# In the message, which was carried by the religious weekly "Glas koncila", Bozanic warned that "man can be sentenced to death by the negligence of ruling structures". "The authorities can sentence a man, as well as a nation, to death by giving them false promises and by going back on those promises; by equating right and wrong, by belittling the great sacrifices of many and by failing to recognise the heritage of the past...," Bozanic said. The civilisation of life and love and the civilisation of death, hatred and indifference stand opposed, Bozanic says, adding that man "is sentenced to death also when his trust in life and the good and his hope for the good are corrupted." Man is sentenced to death when he is denied the right to work, reads the message further. "Man has the right to work. That right is more important than profit and capital. Unemployment and layoffs are the disease of our time," says the Zagreb archbishop in his message. "Easter calls on us to refrain from sentencing others to death by various means, as well as not to accept being sentenced to death," the message concludes. (hina) rml