|
|
Article: Mostar man: 'let my son be last sacrifice': war brings Bosnians back to churches 'like an apocalypse.' (Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
- Article from:
- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- January 29, 1993
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
War brings Bosnians back to churches |like an apocalypse'
MOSTAR, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Trying to find secure footing, the pigeons scrambled for a roost in what was left of the steeple of the church of Saints Peter and Paul, sending bits of crumbled granite and mortar to clatter on the heap of debris below. Inside the courtyard of the Franciscan monastery adjoining the devastated church - in their-own struggle for some semblance of dignity - many of the women of Saints Peter and Paul had fashioned new and sometimes tortured hairstyles to conceal gray roots they were now powerless to hide
It was a Sunday morning in Mostar, and the worshipers were crowded ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Mostar revels in an imperfect peace
The Independent - London;
April 9, 1994 ;
700+ words
... ... had met Selma, a secretary at the Free Mostar radio station two months ago, when the Muslim ghetto of east Mostar was under regular murderous mortar and ... night, the radio station, manned by Mostar's intelligentsia, a centre of intense ...
|
|