BOSNIAN CROATIAN CARDINAL PULJIC'S BOOK PRESENTED IN ZAGREB

ZAGREB, Jan 26 (Hina) A book titled "On Suffering with Hope" by Bosnian Croat Cardinal, the Archbishop of the Sarajevo Archdiocese, Vinko Puljic, was presented last night in Zagreb. The book is a collection of Cardinal Puljic's letters to Pope John Paul II, including many excerpts from Cardinal Puljic's interviews with foreign and home journalists as well as his appeals, protests and reports on the situation in the Sarajevo Archdiocese and Bosnia. The book also deals with the position of Croatian Roman Catholics in Bosnia, and the testimony about the war and Sarajevans' plight. Before the outbreak of the war there had been about 500,000 Roman Catholics in 144 parishes of the Sarajevo Archdiocese (Sarajevo, central Bosnia, the Tuzla wider area and Bosnian Posavina). Only 30,000 Roman Catholics remained now in 5 parishes in the Archdiocese. At the promotion of his book Cardinal Puljic showed a cross made out of pieces of shrapnel. The cross on Cardinal Puljic's bosom was a symbol of the 1000-day siege of Sarajevo and its suffering. (hina) mar mms 261157 MET jan 95