Stepinac

BRUSSELS - In a letter to a Croatian MEP who organised a conference about Croatia's WWII-era Roman Catholic cardinal Alojzije Stepinac in the European Parliament on Tuesday, the Serbian Mission to the EU expressed deep regret over the special highlighting of Stepinac in EP premises as he was a historical figure that opened "painful chapters of the past" in Serbia, diplomatic sources told Tanjug

A woman holds a picture of Alozije Stepinac at an open-air mass in Zagreb in June 2011. Photo:EPA/ANTONIO BAT.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday it was inconceivable the European Parliament was to host a conference aimed at revisionism and another attempt of historical rehabilitation of Croatia's Roman Catholic Archbishop Alojzij Stepinac.

In a written statement to Tanjug, Dacic noted that Stepinac had played a significant role in the WWII-era Independent State of Croatia.

The Croatian journalist was most interested in the canonization of WW2-era Croatian Catholic cleric Alojzije Stepinac.

The canonization of Croatian Catholic Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac would be itself a crime, says Israeli Holocaust expert, Professor Gideon Greif.

According to him, the people who intend to canonize Stepinac are "criminals who are mocking the victims of Jasenovac" - a camp where, according to the survivors, torture was even more horrible than in Auschwitz.

The canonization of Croatian Catholic Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac would be itself a crime, says Israeli Holocaust expert, Professor Gideon Greif.

The likelihood of Pope Francis canonizing Croatian Catholic cleric Alojzije Stepinac is low, Croatian media are reporting this week.

The Zagreb-based daily Jutarnji List is citing an article published in the magazine Globus, that said most people journalist Darko Hudelist spoke with said Stepinac would not be be declared a saint.

The likelihood of Pope Francis canonizing Croatian Catholic cleric Alojzije Stepinac is low, Croatian media are reporting this week.

The Zagreb-based daily Jutarnji List is citing an article published in the magazine Globus, that said most people journalist Darko Hudelist spoke with said Stepinac would not be be declared a saint.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Thursday received the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Efraim Zuroff, Archbishop John of Pakrac and Slavonia of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) and Ruta Vaganaite, a Lithuanian writer and author of the book Our People.

On his first visit to the Vatican, Croatia's new centre-right Prime Minister, Tihomir Oreskovic, is expected to lobby for the canonisation of the controversial Croatian cleric, Alojzije Stepinac.