Balkans
The Youth Diocesan Council in Sarajevo has decided to focus its future activities on helping “young people find work, through a training and retraining programme that enables them to respond to the needs of the labour market” so that they can “find their place within the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina”. This is stated in a press release published today on the website of the John Paul II Youth Pastoral Centre in Sarajevo which informs about the “Second Ordinary Session of the Council” that took place at the Centre on 20 October 2017, in the presence of Card. Vinko Pulijc. Also, the Council will continue to provide “training in child protection” and will carry forward its initiatives aimed at “young people from other regions of the Archdiocese”. During Mass, the Cardinal “stressed the need for man to be open to the Word of God, which keeps the heart from hardness and from the justification of sin, and encourages the development of one’s talents, personal development and the construction of the community”. Card. Pulijc also invited the members of the Council to “be ready to accept the Cross and patiently follow Christ”, because “he who is not willing to make sacrifices can not build the future, nor can he build the Youth Centre” of Sarajevo which celebrates the 10th anniversary of its foundation and must “continue to be a reference point and encourage young people to take responsibility for the future”.
