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Serbian secret police arrested one of the world’s most wanted war criminals for his part in the 1995 massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, The New York Times reported today.

Radovan Karadzic was the Bosnian Serb president during the 1992-1995 war in that country. He had apparently shaved his head and disguised himself as a Serbian Orthodox priest, avoiding arrest for 13 years.

To learn how the country is dealing with religious differences in the wake of the war, read Rebecca Bostic’s feature “Clash of Faiths,” published in the July 17 issue of The Catholic Sun.

Bostic reports on an interreligious choir, on a grassroots effort to unite different faiths at local coffeehouses and on the role Franciscan spirituality plays in the current dialogue.

According to the New York Times story, the European Union is still seeking the arrest of Ratko Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general also indicted on war crimes.

While arrests of war criminals are important, I wanted to direct people to our story that takes on the religious side of things, a dimension often neglected by the secular media. Bostic’s story compliments today’s New York Times piece.

-JD