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Sarajevo: Pope Francis has urged Bosnians to seek lasting ethnic and religious harmony to heal the deep, lingering wounds of the 1992-1995 war that devastated the former Yugoslav republic.

Pope Francis meets people in a youth centre dedicated to Pope John Paul II during his visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Credit:Reuters

"The cry of God's people goes up once again from this city... War never again," he said on Saturday at a Mass for some 65,000 people at the stadium of the city that was once a symbol of ethnic and religious diversity in socialist Yugoslavia.

This disintegrated in the war and Bosnia remains hamstrung by its legacy, divided along ethnic and religious lines.