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Vatican Backs War on Boko Haram

‘Stop This Kind of Genocide’

The Vatican’s top diplomat says “an urgent and effective response” to Boko Haram is required.

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In his strongest statement yet, the Vatican’s man in Geneva endorses decisive military action against terror groups, effectively declaring war on extremists.

Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s top diplomat in Geneva, is not a man to mince his words.

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