CATHOLIC PRIESTS CALL FOR AID TO CROATS IN CENTRAL BOSNIA

VITEZ, Nov 6 (HABENA/Hina) - Committees of the Catholic parishes in central Bosnia on Saturday forwarded an appeal to the Holy Father Pope John Paul II, the bishop conferences of Germany, Austria and France, and Cardinal Franjo Kuharic of Croatia in connection with the grave security and humanitarian situation in central Bosnia, said Herzeg-Bosnia's news agency HABENA. The appeal said that of 53 Catholic parishes in central Bosnia, only 15 left in Moslem encirclement. "Militant fundamentalism from the newly-founded Islamic centres in Zenica, Sarajevo and Travnik is reaching Christian Europe," said the appeal and added: "we are hurt by insensitivity, silence and indifference of Western Catholic countries for the truth about our suffering in Bosnia." (END) m-vm 062112 MET nov 93