{"id":6866,"date":"2006-07-05T00:21:32","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T00:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/on-the-seas.html"},"modified":"2006-07-05T00:21:32","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T00:21:32","slug":"on-the-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/on-the-seas.html","title":{"rendered":"On the seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/world_f43fcc9a73107f82c8f03ca49215429a.html\">Croatian monastery gets ship:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A World War II Nazi ship has been donated to a Roman Catholic monastery by the Croatian government to be turned into a sailing church.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the landing ship DTM-219 was used by Nazi Germany to transport tanks and infantry and was given to communist Yugoslavia after 1945 as part of war compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The ship will be towed to the city of Sibenik in the central Adriatic from a Croatian navy port. It will then be adapted at a local shipyard.<\/p>\n<p>The sailing church will be used by young people who can sail the Adriatic, pray and meditate as part of church-sponsored religious cruises.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jutarnji.hr\/clanak\/art-2006,7,3,ploveca_crkva,33875.jl\">This is the original story &#8211; not that I can read it, but someone out there probably can &#8211; and add to the report of the report in the English-language press.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>DTM-219<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croatian monastery gets ship: A World War II Nazi ship has been donated to a Roman Catholic monastery by the Croatian government to be turned into a sailing church. 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