BANJA LUKA, 27 Aug (Hina) - The Banja Luka Caritas cared for some
17,000 persons, head of the Banja Luka Caritas, Rev. Pero Ivan
Grgic said.
'Some 60% of them are Catholics, mostly Croats, and there are
some Italians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Ukrainians, Hungarians and
Germans', Grgic said, adding that 35% of the people the Caritas
cared for were Serbs, mainly from mixed marriages. Five percent
were Muslims. Most of them were elderly people, living in the city,
Grgic said.
There were some 6,500 Croats who had remained in Banja Luka
and since Caritas' warehouses were empty, their survival was
uncertain.
Church service was being conducted on 20 makeshift places,
since a large number of Catholic churches had been destroyed, Grgic
said, calling on Banja Luka authorities to reveal the truth about
the fate of Ratko Grgic, a priest who had been abducted from Nova
Topola in June 1992 as well as the fate of the priest Tomislav
Matanovic and his parents, who had disappeared from Prijedor in
August last year.
'Generally speaking, the Catholics in Banja Luka are not under
the pressure they once used to be, but one still cannot speak about
their rights and freedoms', Rev. Grgic said.
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