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Bosnia Herzegovina: The Nun of Sarajevo

August 10, 2012

With support from the German Catholic Renovabis Initiative Sister Magdalena Schildknecht of Switzerland is fighting drug abuse in Sarajevo.

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Sarajevo Blick auf die Stadt. Wann wurde das Bild gemacht?: Januar 2011. Wo wurde das Bild aufgenommen?: Sarajevo. Copyright: Liljana Pirolic
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20 years after the Bosnian War of Independence began and 17 years after it ended, Bosnia-Herzegovina is still among Europe's poorest nations. It has since become a transit country for drug-running to western Europe. For twelve years, the Fransiscan Sister Magdalena Schildknecht has been doing what she can to change that. In her initiative for drug abuse prevention, she's encouraging Catholic ethnic Croats, Muslim Bosniaks and Orthodox Serbs to learn to live together again - in the Jerusalem of Europe.

Franziskaner-Schwester aus der Schweiz, die sich in Sarajevo zusammen mit dem Renovabis-Hilfswerk gegen Drogenmissbrauch einsetzt. Copyright: DW-TV
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