Bishop Franjo Komarica (right), the Roman Catholic bishop of Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and David Little, Institute senior scholar in religion, ethics, and human rights, discuss the role of religion in post-Dayton Bosnia at an Institute meeting June 11. Komarica stayed with his people during the war, despite ethnic cleansing by Bosnian Serbs. The Catholic population in the region, currently 5,000, has dropped dramatically from 80,000 before the war, Komarica said. Of 75 Catholic churches in the region, only 5 are now usable.

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