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60,000 Nigerians flee Boko Haram for Cameroon town

April 08, 2015

Fleeing militants of the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, 60,000 Nigerians have taken refuge in Narwa, a town in northern Cameroon.

“We saw [an] unimaginable number of Nigerian refugees,” said Bishop Stephen Yama of Yola, Nigeria, who visited a refugee camp in coordination with the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon.

 

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Gospel Excerpt, John 3:13-17: Jesus said to Nicodemus: "No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal…

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