Post Series: Croatia

The Birth Certificate of Croatia Today we travel to the Balkan Peninsula and in particular to the country of Croatia to explore how the Gospel took root among the Croats. The location we are visiting is called Rižinice, in the Western region of Dalmatia near the Adriatic Sea. It is located a bit than 10…

Croatia has become one of the most attractive touristic destinations in Europe in recent years. And yet the beauty of the land is in stark contrast to its history marked by frequent wars. The conflicts of past centuries are perhaps the main reason that Croatia still has a lot of history to uncover. Yet in…

Few people outside the Balkans understand the history of this region and consequently few understand the root cause for the frequent wars there. In this second stage of a miniseries in which we explore what God has done in Croatia, we will discover some of the spiritual roots for these struggles, as well as the…

In the seventh century, several pagan tribes of Croats invaded the Christian Roman province of Dalmatia. And yet, less than two hundred years later, the region, which was then ruled by the Croats, was a Catholic Duchy. How did this happen? To discover how the Croat rulers turned from paganism to Christianity, we will visit…

Christian missionaries did more than just bring the faith to the Slavic people. They also created the Glagolitic alphabet, which opened the way for the development of Slavic literature. Even if this script is no longer used, many early Glagolitic manuscripts have been preserved, thanks to some monks on a small island in Croatia. For…