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.

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.

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.

The sailing church will be used by young people who can sail the Adriatic, pray and meditate as part of church-sponsored religious cruises.

This is the original story – not that I can read it, but someone out there probably can – and add to the report of the report in the English-language press.

DTM-219