"Finding the way of dialogue and reconciliation" for the victims of the conflict in former Yugoslavia, so that their diverging "requests for justice and truth be granted": this is the wish expressed by the final statement of the meeting of "Justice and Peace Europe", which brought to Belgrade, from 26th to 30th September, the delegates of the 31 national committees that are members of the European body, established in 1971 to give voice to the European Churches on the fight against poverty, migration, human rights and peace. Belgrade hosted a workshop called "Healing the wounds and the memories of war: Serbia confronted by the past and present", along with the general assembly that appointed the new president of "Justice and Peace Europe": it is mgr. Gérard Defois, emeritus archbishop of Lille, who announced he is willing to "work at new forms of European solidarity: financial, political solidarity and cultural and spiritual openness", to live "plurality as an asset, not as a threat". The participants went to Pristina and Mitrovica in Kosovo, and to Vukovar in Croatia, to meet local delegates. The statement acknowledges that "the situation is extremely complicated", with "lots of sufferings in every community we visited". (continued)” ” ” “
