ZAGREB, Dec 27 (Hina) - The Islamic faithful in Croatia on Wednesday celebrated their great holiday, Ramadan Bayram, in a service led by Mufti Sevko Omerbasic, the head of Croatia's Islamic community. In his message, Mufti Omerbasic
thanked the faithful on the "big solidarity demonstrated in assisting those who are afflicted and can't procure for living." "In the course of 2001, it is expected a law on religious communities will be adopted. We hope this law, in the spirit of constitutional solutions and religious freedoms, will respect the integrity of each religious community, equating them in rights and obligations," said Omerbasic. He added that in a time when our society was in the grips of a big crisis, the state and its institutions should be the first to show solidarity with those who were destitute. The messages of the Ramadan Bayram were also read in Albanian. Also read were a message for Musli
ZAGREB, Dec 27 (Hina) - The Islamic faithful in Croatia on Wednesday
celebrated their great holiday, Ramadan Bayram, in a service led by
Mufti Sevko Omerbasic, the head of Croatia's Islamic community.
In his message, Mufti Omerbasic thanked the faithful on the "big
solidarity demonstrated in assisting those who are afflicted and
can't procure for living."
"In the course of 2001, it is expected a law on religious
communities will be adopted. We hope this law, in the spirit of
constitutional solutions and religious freedoms, will respect the
integrity of each religious community, equating them in rights and
obligations," said Omerbasic.
He added that in a time when our society was in the grips of a big
crisis, the state and its institutions should be the first to show
solidarity with those who were destitute.
The messages of the Ramadan Bayram were also read in Albanian. Also
read were a message for Muslims in neighbouring Bosnia, and
messages from Croatia's President Stipe Mesic, parliamentary
speaker Zlatko Tomcic, and First Deputy Prime Minister and
president of the commission for relations with religious
communities Goran Granic.
In the Islamic religion, Ramadan is the month when the sacred book
of Islam, the Koran, was revealed. Ramadan Bayram also marks the end
of a month-long fast the aim of which is spiritual purification and
the believer's moral renaissance.
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