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  • Catholic official says Bosnians must know truth of Srebrenica massacre

    Catholic official says Bosnians must know truth of Srebrenica massacre

    • Jul 17, 2020

    A Bosnian church spokesman said commemorations of the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s worst since World War II, are still marred by denials, impeding reconciliation 25 years after the Balkan war.

    By Jonathan Luxmoore
  • Where virtue falls short, US envoy says money talks on religious freedom

    Where virtue falls short, US envoy says money talks on religious freedom

    • Jan 19, 2020

    “You’ve just ruled yourself out of a whole bunch of investment if you’ve given in to this monochromatic view of religion, that it has to be this and everybody else we punish,” said U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback.

    By John L. Allen Jr.
  • Church urges fairer conditions as Bosnia-Herzegovina elections near

    Church urges fairer conditions as Bosnia-Herzegovina elections near

    • Aug 30, 2018

    The Catholic Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina has urged the country to improve human rights and political representation after upcoming elections, 23 years after the country was divided by a bloody war.

    By Jonathan Luxmoore
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    • Sep 14, 2016

    When Pope Francis convenes a summit of religious leaders next Tuesday in Assisi, it will be the fifth time a pope has done so, beginning with St. John Paul II in 1986, marking a revolution both in how Catholicism engages the world and in the role of the papacy as the chairman of religious moderates everywhere.

    By John L. Allen Jr.

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