me will speak to kathryn joyce, author of "by grave alone: as sex-abuse allegations multiply, billy graham's grandson is on a mission to persuade protestant churches to come clean." he is uniquely positioned to go in and do investigations into sexual abuse at schools and missionary groups because they have impeccable credentials. come from aould not more storyline of evangelicals. >> then we will go to connecticut where 16-year-old transgender girl has spent the last few months locked up in solitary confinement without any criminal charges. we'll find out why. all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. by the book boko haram has left several hundred people dead. residents and local officials say dozens of boko haram gunman attacked the northeast town on monday. at least 336 people were killed and hundreds of homes and vehicles set on fire. bodies were still lying in the street two days later. the town sits on the cameroon border and was targeted because some residents were assisting the nigerian army. attack comes amid

noor who heads up an evangelical protestant church there- a world renowned figure on the level of billy graham in that part of the country, and to hear his struggle. i'll tell you- well, let me set it up this way, to show you that, again, how the conflicts exist in a place where you have one dominant religion and then minority religions. we walked in to meet this fellow and it was the end of our trip, and we were not aware of what a prestigious person this was, what a major world religious leader this was. and so we stumble into his office, we're nice enough, he's very polite, he allows us to set up, and we're just getting ready for the interview, and this man, this religious leader, this author of hundreds of books, suddenly breaks down into tears- he starts crying right there. and we're going, you know, "what? what's going on?" well, it turns out he'd just received a phone call, and a muslim who had converted to christianity- and as many of you may know, that can call, in some instances, for a death sentence- a muslim who was trying to leave the country, one of his follows had just been pick

billy graham said he is the world's pastor.rancis is recovering that. >> with this growing sense of him at the center of world conversation, with income inequality and tolerance for people of different opinions and all of that, there is the question of the pope as a principal explainer of value who looks at pope john ii and the church played a role. >> the pope's coinage, he has no currency to float, no borders to protect. his coinage is simply values, truth, beauty, and goodness. this pope while he does everything to try to diminish you might call the cloud of the papacy has skyrocketed under him. he is returning to what the church does best. values, human dignity. the sacredness of human life, the defense of the voiceless. he is returning to that. his stock goes way up and now he is becoming a major player. >> the more your stock goes up the more influence and leverage you have. might he speak out on ukraine? >> i think he would. there is always when the pope speaks out you have got the moral cerebral ideal. he has done that

they said one person has, billy graham.>> i said, i think the good lord has something he wants me to say. >> they asked you for your notes ahead of time and you said i have no notes? >> i didn't know what i was going to say until the morning of the prayer breakfast. >> wow. what do you think about the phrase that's being used to describe you being called the black avenger? >> i think that's a very racist thing for anybody to say. you know, there needs to come a time when people look at people as people and what makes a person who they are? is it the color of their skin or is it their brain? i can tell you as a brain surgeon, it is definitely not the color of the skin. and the left in particular needs to get away from characterizing everything racially. we need to move beyond that. we're much further advanced. >> you know why they do that, because when they call somebody a racist, historically that has shut them up and shut them down. >> yes. and it's funny what's going on in our country now. the labeling, the demonization,