HIFA OIL helps building a hall for the Catholic parish in Jelah

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sarajevo, St. Ivan Krstitelja Parish – Jelah, turned to the entrepreneurs of Tesanj asking to donate the means for building a Parish hall to serve for its activities, religious and social and cultural ones. «We are aware of our situation, we are a small community, and thus our finances are small as from the contributins from the believers we are not able to finance this. That is why we decided to ask others for help, firstly from the entrepreneurs in Tesanj. As until now – every time we were building or renovating something in the parish (the parish house, the Church in Jelah and Tesanj, the chapel and the morgue at the cemetery in Jelah, etc.), numerous entrepreneurs contributed in these actions. Our goal is, depending on the weather conditions to finish the works in the ground, and continue in spring next year», as written in the letter.

Based on a mutual initiative of the representatives of the catholic community in Tesanj a meeting of the delegation of the community Council with the executive manager and the management of the company HIFA OIL was held.

“Tesanj industry, especially HIFA OIL tends to be sensitive to activities of all religious communities and such meetings and talks are always welcome. We congratulated the Council delegation on its committed work in the community, and we also took advantage of the situation to hand over our donation for building the parish hall in Jelah”, said Hadziselimovic.

Don Ilija Marinović, parish clerk in Jelah thanked HIFA OIL for the donation, explaining that during the meeting they also talked about the need of continueing good neighborhood and cross-national relationships in the area of Tesanj, with the intention for it to be an example for B&H in general. “We work and live with each other. In that way we find ways to keep the youth from not leaving B&H”, said don Marinovic.