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2 rural areas in the past but since a spike in violence about 20 years ago the christian and muslim communities in the state capital have become more and more segregated but not everyone is prepared to accept the divisions as they stand at some of the people what trying to restore trust between different communities. the faithful have gathered for a service at christ angelical church in co doona. a special guest is a peace activist dramatic to johnny the pastor welcomes her encouraging his congregation to reach out to all people across the political divide. you i think his. career is over and yes. can you help us. out of those heroes mrs hart yes the chorus let's fight a battle to. you know after today. the pastor and activist know each other
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well they have traveled together throughout the state to hold peace dialogues and to offer support to people forced from their homes by conflict today a matter to johnny has come to support him she brought several bags of cement for his church which has been under construction for years. this is more the only church i come to where all the churches who did in the states which i use to take and i do the same thing which i go to just creates children as a muslim woman and living doing charity and my numbers instead of me from doing that to johnny studied peace and conflict resolution while she crosses between muslim and christian communities regularly the real success for her is when a lot of people also make that effort for writing was. walks down here to boston college to celebrity christmas. eve fun with more inviting viral receiving why it would still be. such
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a show of unity is important in katrina where for almost 20 years muslims and christians have been living in separate parts of town this bridge it's in the boundary between the north and to the south to the north a predominantly muslim well enough south to come into christian the normal day its residents part right here freely but in times of crisis the boundary is difficult across. the city hasn't always been like this but interreligious violence and other conflicts often fueled by political rivalries have torn the community apart. for safety reasons to johnny keeps home. work and private life separate before starting a peace initiative to journey work in micro financing she still keeps in touch with traders and she used to advise on loans and business plans but she doesn't tell them about her new calling. the one we know about why they were in the days that our divine class that is to. be in the job didn't only we because i said the time
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on extending that. peace building in the sharing day our will to dads with this people here because i would do for the kind of mentality today how we. both pass the brew and he journeys say more should be done at a state level to stop politicians and clerics instrumental mys youths for political gain the government should do more because the trust of the martyrs the government . and issue really do is on politicians who used this young men these youth to achieve their political. remedy to johnny and pastor brew have one main goal to restore peace in the tuna for that they work tirelessly to bridge differences between muslims and christians in their hometown. corresponded a ybor him caught up with john on a can the roman catholic archbishop of the capital of nigeria she started by asking
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him whether the crossing the religious divide should be an individual toss or needs the intervention of the church. both bruce. wherever the heads of churches do under stop level eventually everybody has to because peace plaint because whatever has to do with faith is quite some quite similar and they one of the good things with a big battle like this is that it's also gives opportunity for individuals to meet one on one basis and get to do with i'm not a better when i see there's a restaurant for the 1st time i see a good manas as a vicar got to be kind enough to say a few words and that already. establishes a link which can go very far. what are some of the challenges that you face in nigeria in crossing the religious lines that divide people sometimes.
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the challenge is the churlish of the tendency of some people to abuse so as to feel safe in terms of what their concept of religion namely feeling that. really i need to learn that has the whole truth everybody else is wrong. everybody is not worshipping the true god i'm truly washed it is true god to that that makes it difficult almost impossible to seriously talk together is the service of heart one good thing that the country nigeria that we have is that we will grow up used to having people of faith with us even within this family and that makes a lot of difference because you are allowed then to has to pick the
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the phenomena of plurality of religious your stright moment just like there are some shock people. told people. what sort of bloke you. christers some muslims i know the difference is different but at the end of the day it's just too much of different that different understand it wealth of wealth got. a point is that religious difference is only one of many things that define this that was abraham talking to john when i can be roman catholic archbishop that's a canal from africa as always you can catch all stories on our website and facebook page when it's time i've.
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