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Cardinal Turkson travels to Nigeria for Mass for massacre victims
March 19, 2010
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, the recently appointed president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, has traveled to Nigeria to preside at a March 19 Mass for the victims of recent massacres. The Mass was scheduled to take place in a parish in Bukuru, a small city eight miles from Jos.
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Further information:
- Nigeria – Mass of Solidarity for Attack Victims (ACN News)
- 12 Christians brutally slain in Nigeria; archbishop emphasizes violence not religious (CWN, 3/18)
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