VUKOVAR FOR PRAYER MEETING VUKOVAR, Oct 28 (Hina) - About 5,000 faithful from Djakovo-Srijem diocese gathered for a prayer meeting in the eastern town of Vukovar on Saturday. This is the first official visit of the faithful from
Djakovo-Srijem diocese to Vukovar. Djakovo-Srijem bishop Marin Srakic served a mass in front of a heavily damaged Church of Saints Philip and Jacob. "We have come here to remember the Way of the Cross taken by many Vukovar residents, prisoners who suffered in concentration camps, the wounded ones and staff at the Vukovar hospital, who were taken to Ovcara and other mass grave sites for execution, the residents of Lovas, who were tied with wire and forced into mine fields, as well as all Croatian soldiers and civilians killed in the Homeland War," said Srakic, adding one must not allow hatred and revenge take the place of love and forgiveness. After the mass, the faithful visited the Cemetery of Croatian soldiers.(hina) rml
VUKOVAR, Oct 28 (Hina) - About 5,000 faithful from Djakovo-Srijem
diocese gathered for a prayer meeting in the eastern town of Vukovar
on Saturday.
This is the first official visit of the faithful from Djakovo-
Srijem diocese to Vukovar.
Djakovo-Srijem bishop Marin Srakic served a mass in front of a
heavily damaged Church of Saints Philip and Jacob.
"We have come here to remember the Way of the Cross taken by many
Vukovar residents, prisoners who suffered in concentration camps,
the wounded ones and staff at the Vukovar hospital, who were taken
to Ovcara and other mass grave sites for execution, the residents of
Lovas, who were tied with wire and forced into mine fields, as well
as all Croatian soldiers and civilians killed in the Homeland War,"
said Srakic, adding one must not allow hatred and revenge take the
place of love and forgiveness.
After the mass, the faithful visited the Cemetery of Croatian
soldiers.
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