We find ourselves before a pontificate that was one of the most fruitful, important and profoundly renewing in recent centuries, said Nuncio Lozano

“Our stamp thanks Pope John Paul II for everything he did for our Croatian state, for our Croatian nation and in gratitude to a person who truly believed in the good in each person and championed a genuine and better world order,” emphasized the president of the Croatian Postal Administration, Milan Skoblar

Expressions of condolence from the Jewish community in Croatia sent to the president of the Croatian Conference of Bishops on the occasion of the death of Pope John Paul II

It was a joy for him to make others joyful.

Thousands of people attended a prayer vigil in the Zagreb Cathedral with Cardinal Bozanić, Nuncio Lozano and Auxiliary Bishops Mrzljak and Pozaić. The Government of the Republic of Croatia has proclaimed April 4 and 5, as well as the day of the Pope’s funeral, as days of mourning in Croatia.

Thousands of people attended a prayer vigil in the Zagreb Cathedral with Cardinal Bozanić, Nuncio Lozano and Auxiliary Bishops Mrzljak and Pozaić. The Government of the Republic of Croatia has proclaimed April 4 and 5, as well as April 6, the day of the Pope’s funeral, as days of mourning in Croatia.

Expression of condolences from Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan Jovan Pavlović sent to the president of the Croatian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Bozanić, on the occasion of the Pope’s death

Mufti Omerbašić expressed his most sincere condolences to the president of the Croatian Conference of Bishops, Cardinal Bozanić, on the occasion of the death of the Holy Father

One of the brightest moral beacons of our age has been extinguished, a herald of peace and an advocate of the poor, emphasizes Bishop Škvorčević