LONDON -- A dark shadow lies over Europe this Eastertide. It is no wonder that as the churches and cathedrals fill for the greatest festival of the Christian calendar, people are turning increasingly to prayer to answer a problem that Europe's political leaders seem unable to resolve.
This problem is the horrific tragedy now unfolding in Balkan Europe as an entire people, the Albanians of Kosovo, is turned into an unmanageable mass of terrified refugees, all fleeing the ravages of the Serb militia and leaving the land that has been their home for centuries.
Some say that the NATO bombing of Serb military installations is the cause of this exodus; others say that it was planned all along by the Serbian dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, and bombing is the only way to make him pause and withdraw his barbaric troops from the province of Kosovo.