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Article: FAITH BURNS BRIGHT Bosnia's timely peace Residents return to churches, mosques for holy season
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 24, 1995
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TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Before communism collapsed and
Yugoslavia followed, Dusan Ilic had never set foot in a house of God.
He soon after discovered that he was a religious man. But then the
war came, and every local Serb Orthodox priest fled in fear of a
conflict fired by religious hatred.
And so, bundled in an overcoat and scarf, inside a lovely
onion-domed Serb Orthodox church that is a century old and has been
without heat for the last four years, Ilic and a few hundred others
have carried on by themselves.
At last, he says, their prayers have been answered. With a peace
plan and the deployment of US-led NATO troops, Bosnia will spend its
first Christmas in peace after nearly four ...