Donate a brick to reconstruct some Bosnian parishes in Posavina, on the frontier with Croatia, destroyed in the last war in the Balkans: that’s the Lenten action of solidarity proposed by Fathers Iko Skoko, Robert Ruic and Josip Orolic, parish priests in the area of Mostar and Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The project has been called “Herzegovina Posavina” and, as Father Ruic has explained to SIR, “its aim is to restore a home to the many Catholics who fled their homes during the war and hence give them a chance to return to their homeland. Together with houses, we will also try to reconstruct the churches that were not spared from the fury of war”. Father Ruic says he is convinced that “many will return because they have love for their homeland deep at heart, and also the strength to forgive and to be reconciled”. The Lenten action will be inaugurated at Citluk on Sunday 12 March, in the presence of Cardinal Vinko Puljic, metropolitan archbishop of Sarajevo, and will last until 1st May. After the celebration the cardinal will bless the first two trailer-trucks full of bricks bound for the parishes of Bosanski Brod and Hrvatska Tiina. In this period of Lent newspapers, radio and television, through an awareness-raising campaign, are appealing to “all men and women of good will to pay a small sum of money to buy a brick for the reconstruction, by calling the telephone number 00387/92850850 or sending an SMS to the number 00387/6388850”.
