A wretched year came to a sorrowful end when Father Maciej Zieba, OP, died in his native Wroc?aw, Poland, on December 31. The birthplace of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Wroclaw was also the home of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, who grew up there as Edith Stein when the city was known as Breslau. Unlike those great Christian witnesses, Maciej Zieba was not a martyr; but he, too, gave his life for Christ and the Church, and he bore more than his share of suffering in doing so.
His life was dramatically changed by John Paul II s first pilgrimage to Poland in June 1979. Hearing the pope s eloquent summons to Poles to reject the communist culture of the life by reclaiming the truth about themselves as a nation, the young university student of physics thought, We might have to live and die under communism. But I can live without being a liar. Opportunities to act on that determination multiplied when the Solidarity movement was born in the fall of 1980. Maciej Zieba quickly became involved
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A wretched year came to a sorrowful end when Father Maciej Zięba, O.P., died in his native Wrocław, Poland, on December 31. The birthplace of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Wrocław was also the home of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, who grew up there as Edith Stein when the city was known as Breslau. Unlike those great Christian witnesses, Maciej Zięba was not a martyr; but he, too, gave his life for Christ and the Church, and he bore more than his share of suffering in doing so. His life was dramatically changed by John Paul II’s first pilgrimage to Poland in June 1979. Hearing the pope’s eloquent summons to Poles to reject the communist culture of the lie by reclaiming the truth about themselves as a nation, the young university student of physics thought, “We might have to live and die under communism. But I can live without being a liar.” Opportunities to act on that determination multiplied when the Solidarity movement was born in the fall of 1980. Maciej
Madeleine Albright and Mahathir bin Mohamad received monuments in Sarajevo
The author of the monuments is the famous academic sculptor Enes Sivac G. Mrkić
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Monuments of gratitude for Mohamad bin Mahathir, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, and Madeleine Albright, the former US Secretary of State, were ceremoniously unveiled today in Alipašina Street (Kemal Monteno Park).
The monuments were unveiled by former members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1996) Ejup Ganić, Mirko Pejanović and Stjepan Kljuić, in the presence of the outgoing Mayor of Centar, Mr. Nedžad Ajnadžić.
Led by the Mahathir, Malaysia has provided exceptional assistance and support in the most difficult days for Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as in the later period of reconstruction and recovery.