• President Zoran Milanović met with Coptic Pope Tawadros II, who is on a pastoral visit to Croatia.
  • They discussed interreligious dialogue and church cooperation, on the occasion of Coptic-Catholic Friendship Day.
  • The situation of the Coptic community in Croatia, numbering about 600 members, was also discussed.
  • Pope Tawadros II celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Šalata.
  • Before the meeting, they viewed the exhibition ‘Coptic Traces in Salona: 5th-7th centuries’.

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