CNA Staff, Dec 30, 2020 / 10:30 am
A bishop asked Catholics to fast and pray for two days Wednesday after an earthquake struck Croatia.
Bishop Vlado Košić of Sisak issued the appeal to Catholics in his diocese and throughout the country after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake on Dec. 29 that killed at least seven people and injured 26 others.
His diocese includes the town of Petrinja, located close to the epicenter of the quake, which was felt in the neighboring countries of Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Hungary, as well as Austria and Italy.
In a statement reported Dec. 30 by Croatia's Catholic Information Agency, the bishop called for prayer and fasting Dec. 30-31 that residents would be spared further suffering.