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Number 43 • August
14,
1992
Croatian Cardinal Appeals For Aid
For Action To Help Bosnians VATICAN CITY
(CNS)
—
Croatian
Cardinal Franjo Kuharic appealed for international action to stop the
war in neighbor-
ing Bosnia-Herzegovina, saying those
do not do everything
in their
who
power to stop
the violence are "accomplices in evil."
"All who have the power and the means
of finding a
way
to save the victims
from
extinction are morally obliged to help se-
cure peace and justice for every person and
he said. His appeal Aug. 5 on the front page of Osservatore Romano, the Vatican news-
people in
was
L
'
full liberty,"
printed
paper.
Cardinal Kuharic said Catholics and
Muslims
in Bosnia-
Herzegovina "are ex-
posed to massacres and unspeakable humiliations."
CARDINAL FRANJO KUHARIC
The majority of Catholics in Bosnia are ethnic Croatians. But, the cardinal said, ethnic Poles, Italians and Ukrainians
who
hands of the Serbs as Croatians and Mus-
given their goods and property to the local
lims in the former Yugoslavian republic.
Serbian authorities.
"What is going on there is a genocide and Nazism of the most horrible type be-
Catholics and
The situation is particularly difficult for Muslims near the city of
Banja Luka, which has been declared the capital
and
State
Deputy Donald Dubois
cardinal listed parishes, priests,
women
attacked by Yugoslavian
by bands of Serbian irregulars 'who carry out their own war, who sack and murder at will." forces or
(r)
resent a
$30,000 check to Walter Fucito of COMSER V Group Homes of Morganton as part of a new
program established by the Knights.
The
Of Columbus Establish New _oan Program For Group Homes MORGANTON — The North Caro The 1992 $31,060 was na Columbus 66 $554,068 "Bridge Loan" and $30,000 $475,104 — an 86 <nights
drive, with
raised.
Knights of
presented their
for
irst
to
DMSERV
Group Home of Morganton, have just opened a new home in
/ho
enoir,
ome
and are presently
in Taylorsville.
nplementation of a
staffing another
This was the
first
new program, funded
ytheir annual OperationLA.M.B.'Tootsie Loll" drive, to assist
itizens
the mentally retarded
of North Carolina.
The Knights of Columbus have conucted Operation Least rs
for the past
ffort
by
1
councils participating, grossed
Among My Broth-
9 years. In its first statewide
the 15 existing councils in 1974,
netted
percent
that this
Kuharic
To
support the
new "Bridge Loan
funds. These loans are short term (the
COMSERV
loan
is
for four months),
building or operating group
homes
for the
Fucito, secretary of
COMSERV
— CRISM House
CHARLOTTE
housing service for elderly residents.
.S.
dioceses
when they fall on Saturday
its
is
doors after two years of shared
closing
bserved as holy days of obligation in
diocesan director of Catholic Social Ser-
in
people
the cardinal said.
The
cardinal listed eight Catholic
churches that burned in the
last
month and
repeated every
He also wrote of whole communities of Muslims being so frightened and hungry that they try to leave their villages. But first, he said, they are forced to Catholics and
retiree, interested in
not want the lack of privacy that accompa-
CRISM.
some of things from CRISM House have been
Sister Frances said
learned
On Refugee Situation BALTIMORE,
Conference Center
camps
— Re-
in Croatia
and the border of Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Karel Zelenka of Catholic Relief Services
(CRS) reported
situation for refugees is critical. "In
that the
one 24-
hour period as many as 20,000 refugees crossed the border at Brosanski Brod," he said.
"These numbers of people have over-
whelmed relief agencies working in Croatia. In addition, many of the refugees are being moved into tent cities that will need to be replaced by more permanent structures as At Slovanski Brod, Zelenka was able which forms the
to cross the river Sava,
border between Croatia and Bosnia, to get a first
hand view of refugees streaming out of
Bosnia. "The line of refugees continued as far as the
in Hickory.
Current residents of
July 29, 1992
turning from a one-week tour of refugee
CRISM houseare
said. At was there, the border was closed
eye could see," Zelenka
to all but
lic
Reports
the winter approaches," he reported.
retirement housing, did
nies a residence such as
CRS Official
planning for retirement housing at the Catho-
lessened over time.
that
and nationalities were seen to live in peace,"
shared housing for single, non-frail adults
lay of obligation.
ethnic groups present
people belonging to different religions
ries,
the time he
Maxi-
religious rights to ev-
all
The violence must end so
factored into data considered in long range
experiencing financial limitations.
and
Bosnia- Herzegovina," he said.
was to provide
vices, said the original intent
mum cost of residing at CRISM House was
j
Omarska, near Prijedor, where many Croatians and Muslims from the area live in terrible conditions," he said.
Trinitarian Sister Frances Sheridan,
Monday. However, the action requires Vatican pproval before it becomes law. The Vatican has not yet acted on the bishops' decisions and Aug. 15 remains a holy r
"Father Stipe Sosic, pastor of Ljubija, in a concentration camp in
Shared Housing Ends As House Closes After 2 Years
for this year.
,
where he remains, the
In
abligation in the United States, at least
At their meeting last November, the U.S. bishops approved motions that Jan. Aug. 15 and Nov. 1 no longer will be
the factory-prison,
day," he said.
J.
national
cardinal said.
Deputy Donald L. Dubois of Raleigh and Past State Deputy Ronald J. Carney of Lenoir made the presentation to
CRISM Assumption, remains a holy day of
was tied in a sack and thrown into He later was brought back to
field."
damaged. "Unfor-
Saturday, Aug. 15, the Solemnity of the
com
is
Experiment
Day Of Obligation
a
said another 20 had been
inc.
Holy
ness and
tunately, this practice
Walter
human,
can return to their homes "where, for centu-
mentally retarded. State
force "the Serbian authorities to guarantee
horribly beaten to the point of unconscious-
no
interest loans to non-profit organizations,
said.
All necessary means should be taken to
ery individual and
is
Fund," the Knights set aside 7 percent of net
cataclysm and these apocalyptic
times will be put to an end," Cardinal
was imprisoned "with hundreds of his parishioners in a room of a factory in Sanski Most, after which he was Stara Rijeka
effi-
ciency rating.
pastor of the Catholic parish in
appeal to public opinion, to the
governments of all countries of the world so
'
ian
of the "Serbian Republic of Bosnia."
"We
who have been (1)
and voluntarily have
free will
persecution of truly wild beasts," the cardi-
convents and groups of religious
Past State Deputy Ronald Carney
own
cause entire peoples are exposed to the
The
Columbus
are leaving of
their
nal said.
jiights of
document saying they
sign a
are Catholic are suffering the same fate at the
women and children.
For now, Zelenka reports no end sight to the refugee crisis in
in
former Yugo-
$200 monthly. The reality, she said, was that only frail elderly applied.Whilethe more agile appli-
on Eastway Drive in Charlotte will become the new home for the Refugee Office staff
provide winterized shelter, food, health care
cants were selected,
effective Sept.
is
their level
of
agility
The more independent
being
moved to other locations. The house
1.
slavia.
The
cost over the next six
and education for refugees
months
in Croatia
to
alone
estimated at half a billion dollars. Should
See CRS, Page 6