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  • Orthodox church in Croatia opens new museum after the old one was destroyed during the war

    06/08/2006 12:45:46 PM PDT · by joan · 8 replies · 444+ views
    Calibre ^ | June 8, 2006
    Released : Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:29 AM ZAGREB, Croatia-Thirteen years after its museum was blown up during the 1991 Serbo-Croat war, the Croatian Orthodox Church put its icons, manuscripts and other works of art on show Thursday at a new location in Zagreb. "Like the Phoenix, this exhibit has now been reborn from the ruins of the war," said Bishop Jovan, the head of the Orthodox Church in Zagreb. He added that the "rich and painful history" of the works exposed there should "serve the peace and the rapprochement" between primarily Roman Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs. Croats and...