| Christians flee Bosnia amid discrimination, Islamization |
| Sunday, October 14, 2012 |
"Report: ‘Christians Flee Bosnia Amid Discrimination, Islamization,’" by Stefan J. Bos for BosNewsLife, October 12
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians are massively
leaving post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina amid mounting discrimination and
Islamization, according to a new report released Friday, October 12.
"Many believers leave the country since war raged 20 years ago," said
Netherlands-based advocacy and aid group Kerk in Nood, or 'Church in
Need', in the report obtained by BosNewsLife. There are just 440,000 Catholics left in the Balkan nation, half the prewar figure, the group said. The report came on the heels of talks between the cardinal of
Sarajevo, Vinko Puljic,and European Council President Herman van Rompuy
about difficulties faced by Bosnia's Christians.
MOSQUES BUILT
Puljic reportedly complained that while dozens of mosques
were built in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, no building permissions were
given for Christian churches. "The cardinal already waits 13 years on permission to build
just a small church," Church in Need said. Authorities so far refused to
return hundreds of nationalized church buildings, despite a ruling by
the European Court of Human Rights to do so, according to Christian
officials.
Additionally tens of thousands of people, many of them Catholic
Croats, have been prevented from returning home following the war,
Church in Need said. These obstacles violate the Dayton peace accords
that ended the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, which split the nation between a
Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat federation.
"Time is running out as there is a worrisome rise in
radicalism," Puljic said, who added that the people of
Bosnia-Herzegovina were "persecuted for centuries" after European powers
"failed to support them in their struggle against the Ottoman Empire."... Hat tip: Jihad Watch |
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