Fri, 3 Nov 1995 18:43:08 -0500 (EST)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 18:43:07 -0500 (EST)
From: "Slobodan M. Pesic" <pesic+@pitt.edu>
Subject: WP Appeal of Conscience
To: Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studie <revs@csf.colorado.edu>
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Washington Post  	Nov. 02, 1995

  
          AN APPEAL OF CONSCIENCE TO THE LEADERS OF BOSNIA- 
          HERZEGOVINA, CROATIA AND SERBIA TO WORK FOR PEACE, 
	  AND TO SEE THIS WORK AS A RESPONSIBILITY BEFORE HISTORY, 
	  BEFORE THEIR PEOPLES, AND ULTIMATELY BEFORE GOD 
  
  
  True faith stands for peace. Whatever our differences, this has 
been our common ground since the Appeal of Conscience Foundation 
conferences in Bern, Istanbul and Vienna. The declarations we 
adopted proclaim that "a crime in the name of religion is the 
greatest crime against religion." 
  
  This call elicited worldwide support from statesmen and religious 
leaders of different faiths. Most recently, we received messages 
from Presidents Izetbegovic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Milosevic of 
Serbia and Tudjman of Croatia encouraging our religious commitment 
to peace and search for reconciliation. 
  
  Today, we salute President Clinton for bringing together in 
Dayton Ohio, the three Presidents in search of a peaceful solution. 
On this day, we ask all men and women of goodwill to pray that 
these leaders be granted the wisdom to find the way to peace. 
  
  Next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, in churches, synagogues and 
mosques, let us pray that the people who have suffered the agonies 
of war will be free to enjoy the peace that is rightfully theirs.
 
  His Eminence Cardinal Franjo Kuharic, 
  Archbishop of Zagreb, President of Catholic Bishops Conference 
  of Croatia. 
  
  His Holiness Patriarch Pavle, 
  Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
   
  His Excellency Dr. Mustafa Ceric, 
  Rais ul Ulema of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
   
  His Eminence Cardinal Vinko Puljic, 
  Archbishop of Sarajevo, President of Catholic Bishops, 
  Conference of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
   
  Rabbi Arthur Schneier, 
  President, Appeal of Conscience Foundation. 
  
  

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