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Fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria

The Archbishop of Jos in central Nigeria, Ignatius Kaigama, works for religious freedom and dialogue between Christians and Muslims. It’s not easy. The Islamic terrorist group, in Jos and in the Diocese of Maiduguri in the northeast, heart of Boko Haram’s territory, have lost parish schools, churches and clinics, seen laypeople and priests killed, and girls kidnapped. [1]