Papal visit to Bosnia has nothing to do with Medjugorje, says cardinal [CC]

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At a press conference devoted to Pope Francis’s upcoming apostolic journey to Bosnia, Cardinal Vinko Puljic said that "Medjugorje has nothing to do with this visit."The prelate …

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At a press conference devoted to Pope Francis’s upcoming apostolic journey to Bosnia, Cardinal Vinko Puljic said that "Medjugorje has nothing to do with this visit."The prelate …

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Good its not approved and probably never will be…Considering the Vatican forbids priests from attending doing the right thing from the top is important.
 
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Good its not approved and probably never will be…Considering the Vatican forbids priests from attending doing the right thing from the top is important.
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I was going to ask if it was one approved by the Vatican…thanks for posting.
 
Bosnia: 3.83 million

Islam 45%
Eastern Orthodoxy 36%
Roman Catholic 15%

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
I also find the last time a Pope visited Bosnia may be 1997.

I don’t know when the Pontiff last went to Croatia or any other part of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia:

He did go in 1994 to Croatia. Slovenia is Catholic too,hopefully, the Holy Father has visited there:
ZAGREB – Today’s visit of Pope John Paul II to Croatia has sent a deeply divisive message throughout the former Yugoslavia. It was something he had tried to avoid with his original plan to visit all three warring parties: the Croatian Roman Catholics, the Bosnian Muslims and the Serbian Orthodox.
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But the Serbian Orthodox Church rebuffed him. His security could not be guaranteed in Sarajevo. So he has ended up doing exactly what he did not intend: visiting just Croatia and raking up the kind of memories that have led to the present civil war.
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articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-09-10/news/1994253012_1_croatia-roman-catholic-zagreb
 
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Bosnia: 3.83 million

Islam 45%
Eastern Orthodoxy 36%
Roman Catholic 15%

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
I also find the last time a Pope visited Bosnia may be 1997.

I don’t know when the Pontiff last went to Croatia or any other part of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia:

He did go in 1994 to Croatia. Slovenia is Catholic too,hopefully, the Holy Father has visited there:

articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-09-10/news/1994253012_1_croatia-roman-catholic-zagreb
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Thanks for posting those statistics.
 
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