SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Sarajevo unveiled a statue of late Pope John Paul II on Wednesday to honour his efforts to promote peace and reconciliation during and after Bosnia's 1990s war.
Sarajevo citizens of all faiths - Bosniak Muslims, Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs - fondly remember the pope, who was among the first to recognise the new Bosnian state after it proclaimed independence in 1992 from then-Yugoslavia.
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