Pope Francis on a visit in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, urged Bosnians today (June 6, 2015) to seek lasting ethnic and religious harmony to heal the deep, lingering wounds of the 1992-1995 war that devastated the former Yugoslav republic, according to the Newsmax website.
"The cry of God's people goes up once again from this city, the cry of all men and women of good will: war never again," he said at a Mass for some 65,000 people at the stadium of the city -- with a cross-section of Muslims, Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christians, and Jews -- that was once a symbol of ethnic and religious diversity in socialist Yugoslavia.
Francis listed the sufferings endured by Bosnians, mentioning refugee camps, destroyed houses and factories, and shattered lives.
"You know this well, having experienced it here: how much suffering, how much destruction, how much pain!" he said, raising his voice as he read his homily in Italian.
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