The Croatian Heritage Foundation has been publishing the MATICA monthly magazine for 54 years now, making it one of the oldest publications of its kind in Croatia.
It is presently printed on from 76 to 80 pages in 3000 copies. Besides its 2500 subscribers Matica it is dispached to Croatian embassies, Catholic missions, Croatian clubs, associations and the other places our communities across the globe gather.

MATICA JOURNAL — YOUR WINDOW TO THE OLD COUNTRY & YOUR PATRIOTIC TREASURY!

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No. 3 March 2006 The latest issue of MATICA Magazine is out in which you can get to know the new Director of the Croatian Heritage Foundation, Mrs. Katarina Fuček, learn more about Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandić's visit to the United States of America and Canada, read very interesting interviews with world renowned scientist Professor Ivan Đikić PhD and with sculptor Petar Barišić, and more about our repatriates. The sports pages carry an interview with basketball player Matej Mamić, an extensive look back at the Winter Olympic Games, an announcement from the Croatian Football Federation (HNS) on a European and world soccer championship of emigrant Croatians,

and the 1st Croatian World Games – an Athletic competition of Croatian emigrants that is to be held in Zadar this summer. As always, however, the top news are you, our dear readers, and your traditional gatherings in Catholic missions, Croatian Houses and elsewhere, and this issue brings many interesting contributions and useful information. Highlights in this issue:

The CHF abroad and in the Homeland
Katarina Fuček, CHF Director

Croatians Abroad
The 1st Croatian World Games promoted in the South African Republic

The Church in Croatia
An interview with the Reverend A. Kutleša, head of the Guardianship for Croatians Abroad
The Renovation of the Shrine of St. Ivo in Podmilačje

Education, the Sciences & Culture
Professor Ivan Đikić PhD, an eminent Croatian in global science
Sculptor Petar Barišić once again with the emigrant communities
A review of Mihanović's Poljički Parnas

The Economy
Repatriate Karlo Starčević, owner of the Ličanka Brewery
Painter and Sciences & Arts Academy member Kornelija Neli Bajalo

Current Affairs / Events
Mayor Milan Bandić with the Croatians of the USA and Canada

Front cover: The «Jugo» wind blows in Opatija