BOSNIA'S ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS URGE RECONCILIATION

( Vidi vijest: 5879 ) SARAJEVO, Oct 26 (Hina) - On occasion of the Pope's Day, 26 October, Bosnia-Herzegovina's Roman Catholic bishops released a letter containing guidelines for the implementation of a message Pope John Paul II had forwarded to the Catholic faithful in Bosnia during his visit to this country on 12 and 13 April 1997. The letter was quoted by the Bosnian Croat news agency (HABENA), as saying that bishops regarded themselves as particularly called upon to strengthen the unity of the Church, to urge forgiveness and reconciliation among people and to make great efforts aimed at the respect for God's law and the resolute protection and promotion of human dignity and inalienable human rights and freedoms. The letter signed by Archbishop of Sarajevo Vinko Puljic, Bishop of Banja Luka Franjo Komarica, Bishop of Mostar Ratko Peric, and Assistant Bishop of Sarajevo, Pero Sudar, said that during his visit to Sarajevo, Pope John Paul II gave them an incentives to be promoters and defenders of "Christ's Kingdom in the whole of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where divine providence wants us to be." (hina) mš 261338 MET oct 97