ZAGREB, July 29 (Hina) - All ten dioceses at the Sardinian Bishops' Conference had sent 1.200,000 German marks worth of help to Croatia since 1992, director of the Croatian humanitarian organization Caritas, Reverend Josip Grosic,
said at Monday's news conference. Present at the conference was a delegation of Caritas of the Sardinian Bishops' Conference, headed by the Archbishop of Sassario, Msgr. Salvatore Isgro.
ZAGREB, July 29 (Hina) - All ten dioceses at the Sardinian Bishops'
Conference had sent 1.200,000 German marks worth of help to Croatia
since 1992, director of the Croatian humanitarian organization
Caritas, Reverend Josip Grosic, said at Monday's news conference.
Present at the conference was a delegation of Caritas of the
Sardinian Bishops' Conference, headed by the Archbishop of
Sassario, Msgr. Salvatore Isgro. #L#
Isgro stressed that Sardinia was a poor country and had
numerous problems, but that the Church in Sardinia was ready to
help Croatia and its people.
"We wanted to get acquainted in detail with the situation in
the field and see what is necessary. We will continue to provide
material, spiritual and moral assistance, in accordance with our
possibilities," Isgro said.
Besides sending help, ten parishes of the Cagliari
archbishporic began accepting Mostar refugees in early 1993.
Grosic said that besides small projects, the Croatian Caritas
was working on large projects of national importance.
One such was the support to the Croatian government project of
return of displaced persons to reconstructed houses and furnishing
of the houses, Grosic said.
Another project is the project of breathing life into small-
scale industry, which is realized by the Croatian Caritas with the
cooperation of the Zagrebacka Banka.
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