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Cardinal demands equal treatment for Catholics

byStaff writers
29 January 2012
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CATHOLICS in Bosnia-Herzegovina should be treated equally, according to Cardinal Vinko Puljic, archbishop of Sarajevo.

In the employment market, in schools and in other spheres of social life, Catholics were systematically disadvantaged, he said.

The aim is to persuade them to leave the country.
Church lands and buildings that were confiscated during the period of Communism have not been returned, and building approvals for churches are subjected to years of delay.

The government “has no interest in giving the Catholic Church back its property”, he said.

Muslim property has been returned, however.

 The 66-year-old cardinal said the growing Islamisation in Bosnia-Herzegovina was a concern.

Muslim centres and mosques have been built in many places with petrodollars from Saudi Arabia.

In recent years, at least 70 new mosques have been built in Sarajevo alone.

There are already 3000-5000 Wahhabis (members of a radical Sunni religious movement which is the official religion in Saudi Arabia) in the country, seeking to gain influence within society.

“Nobody in the government has the courage to do anything to prevent this development,” he said.

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 The Catholic Church is the only force in society that strives for the different population groups and religions to live together in peace and equality, the cardinal said.

“We are a minority, but we are a constructive force that wishes to make a contribution to the success of society,” he said.

About 40 percent of the population are followers of Islam, and some 31 percent belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church.

The remainder belong to other religious communities.

Catholics still account for some 10 percent.

Of the 820,000 Catholics who lived in Bosnia-Herzegovina before the war between 1992 and 1995, only 460,000 remain.

The cardinal said the wave of emigration was continuing.

 

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