ZAGREB, Oct 21 (Hina) - U.S.A Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference member, in charge of churches in eastern and central Europe, Arch- Bishop Theodor McCarrick said on Monday that he would love to see Bosnia-Herzegovina as reunited
"multiethnic, multicultural and multireligious state as it had existed before."
ZAGREB, Oct 21 (Hina) - U.S.A Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference
member, in charge of churches in eastern and central Europe, Arch-
Bishop Theodor McCarrick said on Monday that he would love to see
Bosnia-Herzegovina as reunited "multiethnic, multicultural and
multireligious state as it had existed before." #L#
"Bosnia-Herzegovina was an example of such state," Arch-Bishop
McCarrick told Croatia's news agency Hina after his four-day visit
to Bosnia.
During the tour to Bosnia he had several interesting meetings.
The American arch-bishop held talks with Kresimir Zubak, a Croat
member of Bosnia's three-member presidency, Bosnian Serbs' entity
president Biljana Plavsic, OSCE representative Ambassador Robert
Frowick, Islamic community leader reis-ul-ulema Mustafa Ceric and
Roman Catholic dignitaries including Cardinal Vinko Puljic and
Bishop of Banja Luka Franjo Komarica.
During the talks with Croatian member of the Bosnian
presidency Zubak and reis-ul-ulema Ceric the American arch-bishop
found that it seemed to be "openness to dialogue" as well as
"certain concern about some difficulties in the relationship
between the two communities (Moslems and Croats) that create the
Federation now."
In Serb-controlled Banja Luka Arch-Bishop spent two day where
he talked with Plavsic about the human rights' situation, religious
freedoms and the refugees' right to return to home.
During the stay in Banja Luka he also met the Catholic
faithful and priests who told him about their "difficulties they
face every day".
Speaking about the role of the Catholic Bishop Franjo Komarica
during the plight of non-Serb population in Banja Luka in the past
four years, McCarrick said Bishop Komarica was a brave man who
wanted to promote the policy of non-violence.
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