Priest's sermon goes viral: "Help migrants if they accept our God".

A Bosnian priest's speech urging migrants in his country to change their faith is causing plenty of discussion.

About a hundred faithful attended the celebrations held on 20 August to mark Youth Sunday at the Franciscan parish near Derventa in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina. They could not have guessed that the recordings of the speech given by Friar Mato Vincetić would engage millions of people in the Balkans a few days later. 

Vincetić, who acts both as Parish Vicar in Derventa and as military chaplain in the nearby Croatian town of Vinkovci, namely spoke in his speech about a topical issue: migration. He tied the acceptance of refugees in his home country to certain conditions. In his opinion, the migrants should give up their faith if they want to get food in the country that takes them in. Vincetić also criticised them for rejecting pork, among other things.

"We cannot take migrants into our home, give them everything, and then they come blatantly, brazenly, disrespectfully and inconsiderately and say, 'I am a Muslim, you must give me the food I want to eat'," Vincetić told worshippers who had come to Plehan near Derventa from different parts of Bosnia and Croatia. 

The live broadcast of the Mass could be watched on the local TV station Posavina TV, but was removed from the archive a short time later. However, parts of this recording found their way onto social networks. 

"Your God has left you hungry, thirsty, naked and barefoot".

"You came from a land hungry, thirsty, naked and barefoot. Your God has left you hungry, thirsty, naked and barefoot. You have come here to my house, where Jesus Christ lives, whom I thank for all the graces I have in the West. I thank him," reads the speech in which Vincetić addresses a fictitious migrant. 

"And now you are imposing your God on me, who left you hungry, thirsty, naked and barefoot, and I have to fulfil his wishes, serve you, instead of saying, 'Hello, I guess it's clear who we have to thank for all the wealth and progress of the West - Christ and the Gospel'," Vincetić told the assembled faithful.

"Let go of your God!"

The monk also criticised the EU: "In the constitution of the European Union, unfortunately, there is no God, no Christ and no Gospel. They have turned away from it and therefore have problems, because they have to endure the insolence of those who come and say: we are human beings and as such we have the right to get something to eat."

This in itself is not a problem, Vincetić spoke: "We will give them something to eat. But then they come and say they can't eat pork, only veal. What an impertinence!" This could not go on, he noted. One would do good to the migrants in his country, but they would continue to worship another God. "No, you can't! Let go of your God, acknowledge faith in the true God, then we will give you everything. You will get everything that we have," Vincetić demanded, triggering an avalanche of discussion. 

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