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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:49:21 EDT
Reply-To:     ARistotelHS <APAPA@AMERICAN.EDU>
From:         ARistotelHS <APAPA@AMERICAN.EDU>
Subject:      Jevtic-Bosnia

Prin deka meres episkefthke thn Washington o episkopos Batalou
p. A0anasios Gieftits. Proskeklhmenos ths Serbikhs Ekklhsias
sthn Amerikh kai ton Kanada, phge sto Toronto kai thn Washington
gia epafes kai enhmerwsh ths omogeneias kai politeutwn.
Edw sunanthse ton Sarmpanh, thn Mpentley, kai mia omhgurh staff
members diaforwn gerousiastwn.
Edw milhse sthn Agia Aikaterinh parousia ligostou koinou, sta
ellhnika kai ta serbika. Ta ellhnika tou einai 0aumasia ka0oti
phre to didaktoriko tou apo thn 0eologikh sxolh ths A0hnas
(1968-72, H ekklhsiologia tou Apostolou Paulou) kai episkeptetai
(-otan) suxna thn Ellada. Einai megalh morfh. Na deite pws paizei
podosfairo me ta paidia! Telos pantwn, euxaristhse tous Ellhnes
kai thn Diaspora gia thn boh0eia tous kai thn sunexh uposthri3h.
Eipe oti mono emeis katalabainoume thn katastash tous, afou
exoume upostei ton tourkiko zugo, tis adikies me to Kupriako,
kai tis sunomwsies twn dutikwn (blepe ka0olikwn). Eipe ki alla ta
opoia sunopsizontai sthn sunenteu3h pou edwse stous W. Times
(9/30/92) thn opoia kai sas thn para0etw.

SERBIAN BISHOP WARNS MUSLIMS' GAINS IN BALKANS

By Andrew Borowiec
The Washington Times

    A Serbian bishop who left his cathedral in ruins has called
for an end to "the most horrible war in the history of the area"
and warned that militant Islam has used the conflict to establish
a foothold in the Balkans.
    The most Rev. Atanasije Jevtic, Orthodox bishop of
Herzegovina, said in an interview that no solution to the
conflict is possible while Serbia's neo-communist president,
Slobodan Milosevic, remains in power.
    In an emotional description of the "dirty war" - inwhich
ethnic, religious and political passions have exploded with a
violence unseen in Europe since World War II - Bishop Jevtic
pleaded with the West to "listen to the heartbeat" of the Serbs
rather than to their " communist leader.
    He is touring the United States and Canada at the invitation
of their Orthodox clergy.
    He said regular forces from Catholic Croatia are mounting new
attacks on Serbian villages to avenge the excesses of the
communist-led Yugoslav federal army, which withdrew from the
area.
    "The Serbian population had nothing to do with these
excesses," he said. "I am not trying to say that Serbs did not
commit atrocities. The communists have left us a legacy without
conscience."
    He described the struggle for Bosnia-Herzegovina as "the most
horrible war in the history of the area." He said the
destrauction has been more devastating before "because all sides
have heavy weapons, most of them left behind by the Yugoslav
army."
    The bishop stressed his theory that the outside world helped
fuel the war by tolerating  Mr. Milosevic and recignizing the
Muslim government of the breakaway republic of
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
    Many Serbs say Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic is an
Islamic fundamentalist. The belief chiefly is based on an
"Islamic Declaration" in which he said, "There can be neither
peace nor coexistence between the Islamic and the non-Islamic
social and political institutions."
    Bishop Jevtic, who abandoned the devastated city of Mostar
and established the center of his diocese in Trebinje, said "the
West is not aware of the penetration of Islam" in the Balkans,
where "mosques are rising where there were none before."
    There have been independent reports that volunteers from
several Islamic countries have joined Muslim militias in their
struggle against the Serbs and Croats who have seized most of the
Bosnia's territory.
    Western sources estimate there are 500 such fighters, most
from Saudi Arabia, Iran or Turkey.
    The bishop, who said a third of his diocese was overrun by
Croats who "flattened" Serbian villages, often has been attacked
for his blunt criticism of the Serbian leadreship, particularly
Mr. Milosevic.
    Some Serbian newspapers in Belgrade have labeled Bishop
Jevtic "the most destructive element in the Serbian Orthodox
Church."

To ar0ro sunodeuetai apo mia megalh fwtografia tou episkopou.


P.S.1 Oi Serboi spane to empargo kai pairnoun petrelaio apo thn
Boulgaria pernwntas swlhnes mesa apo ta sunora!

P.S.2 To Newsweek auths ths ebdomados exei afierwma-anafora stous
Moutzaxentin apo diafora islamika pou polemoun sthn Bosnia!

P.S.3 Ena egkuklopaidiko pou mas eipe sthn deuteriatikh sunanthsh
mas: Ti shmanei etumologika h le3h proskunw? Einai h pra3h pou
kanoun ta peristeria otan "filiountai" aggizonras ta ramfh tous!
As mhn exoume pietistika sundroma otan proskuname tis eikones
loipon!
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