Christians, Muslims, Jews call for peace from Sarajevo

AFP 10/9/2012 SARAJEVO, Sept 10 – Leaders of Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Muslim and Jewish communities Sunday made a pressing call for peace from Bosnia which was the scene of the worst atrocities committed in Europe since World War II. Stressing the “commitment of Serb people to the strengthening of peace” Serb Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej said he wished that the future of peoples in the Balkans be “freed from the tragic and painful experiences of the past.” “I wish sincerely that new generations grow up without a feeling of hatred and that they be protected from the horrible experience of conflicts,” Irinej said in an address to several thousand people at an annual gathering of the Rome-based Catholic lay community of Sant’Egidio in Sarajevo