Commemoration Mass for the Victims of Post-World War II Killings

Kočevje, 18 June - A commemoration at the anniversary of the killings that followed the World War II took place on Sunday at the mass burial ground in the Kocevski Rog forest, southern Slovenia. As part of the commemoration, Archbishop of Ljubljana and Slovene Metropolitan Franc Rode held a mass and named Slovene "advocates of the faith" those who were killed in World War II because of religion. He thus followed an example by Pope John Paul II, who, in the beginning of May, remembered the Christians who died because of their faith in the 20th century.