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The Warsaw Arrupe Centre supports the school in Bosnia and Herzegovina donated to John Paul II in 2003 by the leader of the Bosnian Serbs.

In 2003 Pope John Paul II visited Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the beatification of the local intellectual Ivan Mertz (1896-1929). The President of Republika Srpska (the district in which Banja Luka is located), wanted to give a present to the head of the Catholic Church.

- What gift would I give to the Pope? - asked the Orthodox leader of the Republic, which is part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

- The president might give a building in which the church will be enabled to set up a school.

It happened. Since then, the only Catholic school in the city has enjoyed a high reputation among Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants and even Muslims.

Since January of this year the Jesuit Arrupe Centre has been cooperating with the school . At the end of February, father Wojciech Żmudziński SJ and Mrs. Elżbieta Kowalik visited Banja Luka. The visit began with a supper invited by Bishop Franjo Komarica. The figure is a legendary, would-be winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, trying to wake up Western Catholics from their dormancy and testify to dozens of priests and nuns martyred in the nineties during ethnic cleansing. Out of hundreds of thousands of Catholics, few were left in the Republika Srpska.

In a school run by the diocese of Bishop Franjo Komarica, Wojciech Żmudziński SJ, conducted a training entitled "Introduction to the Ignatian model of pedagogy and ways to motivate students to work on a lesson". Twenty-two teaching school educators, mostly Orthodox, took part in it.

Representatives of this school, prepared for the role of fundraisers, will arrive in July 2018 for a two-week training course in Warsaw, Falenica. Other future fundraisers from Catholic schools from Albania, Ukraine and Poland will also take part in it.

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