MOSTAR, March 18 (Hina) - A Bosnian Croat bishop called on the clergy and believers from dioceses in the country's southern Herzegovina region to attend a prayer meeting, to take place in Mostar on St. Joseph's Day, Monday.
Mostar-Duvno Bishop Ratko Peric said the meeting would celebrate the patron of the Mostar-Duvno diocese and appeal for justice and peace in the family, society and homeland. "We pray to God that he may help our people and its legal representatives to reasonably, decisively and through negotiations promote all human rights and civil and ethnic liberties, for the sake of full equality of the Croat people in union with other peoples of Bosnia-Herzegovina," Peric said in a letter to the faithful. The religious dignitary accuses the international community of systematically causing inequality and existential uncertainty of the Croat people, destroying the foundations of democracy in their
MOSTAR, March 18 (Hina) - A Bosnian Croat bishop called on the
clergy and believers from dioceses in the country's southern
Herzegovina region to attend a prayer meeting, to take place in
Mostar on St. Joseph's Day, Monday.
Mostar-Duvno Bishop Ratko Peric said the meeting would celebrate
the patron of the Mostar-Duvno diocese and appeal for justice and
peace in the family, society and homeland. "We pray to God that he
may help our people and its legal representatives to reasonably,
decisively and through negotiations promote all human rights and
civil and ethnic liberties, for the sake of full equality of the
Croat people in union with other peoples of Bosnia-Herzegovina,"
Peric said in a letter to the faithful.
The religious dignitary accuses the international community
of systematically causing inequality and existential uncertainty
of the Croat people, destroying the foundations of democracy in
their country and homeland. The international community, Peric
says, has set up the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague,
where Croat soldiers, whom no personal war guilt has been proven,
but who are made the victims of some imaginary collective
responsibility, are denied their rights for good.
The bishop also accuses the international community of forcibly
replacing representatives elected with the majority of Croat
votes, including the State Presidency member Ante Jelavic.
Only those elected by the Croat electorate have the right and
obligation to represent the Croat people, Peric says.
According to available information, there is a great interest among
international structures in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Mostar
meeting, which is expected to gather large numbers of Herzegovina
believers.
(hina) rml