MEETING ON INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF RELIGIOUS TV PROGRAMMES ST

ST $ ARTS IN ZAGREB ZAGREB, Oct 19 (Hina) - A two-day meeting about international cooperation of religious television programmes began in the Croatian Radio Television building in Zagreb on Friday. The meeting is to be addressed by the head of the Croatian Bishops' Conference press office, Ilija Zivkovic, and in the afternoon by Cardinal Franjo Kuharic and assistant Zagreb bishop Marko Culej, a statement from the Croatian Television religious culture programme. #L# The meeting was organized by the Croatian Television and the Catholic Programme at a German television station in Mainz and is aimed at connecting western European Catholic TV programmes with similar programmes from central and eastern Europe. Croatian Vice-Premier and president of the Commission for Relations with Religious Communities, Jure Radic, on Friday spoke at the meeting about relations between the state and religious communities and about the positive role religious communities had played in the Croatian homeland war, especially the Catholic Church. (hina) lm 191111 MET oct 96