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Friday, November 6, 2020

Horrified by deadly attacks, French Muslims protect church

Horrified by deadly attacks, French Muslims protect churchAs a French-born Muslim, Elyazid Benferhat’s stomach turned when he heard about a deadly Islamic extremist attack on a church in Nice. A self-described man of peace and pragmatism, Benferhat and a friend gathered a group of young Muslim men to stand guard outside their town's cathedral for the All Saints’ holiday weekend, to symbolically protect it and show solidarity with Catholic churchgoers. Parishioners at the 13th-century church in the southern town of Lodeve were deeply touched.


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