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'We can live together': church helps bridge Bosnia's deep divisions / 32G79NW
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Decades after bloody fighting between Catholics and Muslims ripped apart Bosnia's Bugojno, a new church has provided a rare opportunity to bridge the divides in the deeply fractured Balkan country.
Still under construction, the Catholic place of worship in the central Bosnian town is being built on land donated by Husejn Smajic, a 68-year-old Muslim resident, after he discovered the foundation of a medieval church on his property.
For Smajic, the new church represents a small step in a quest to rebuild the communal harmony common in Bosnia before the war in the 1990s.
"I did this so that people can see that we can all live together. There cannot be beauty of life here without the mixture of communities. It is our wealth," Smajic tells AFP. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES