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April 30, 2015

Toronto's Ethiopians rally against Islamic State brutality

Ethiopian immigrants from the Christian, Orthodox, Protestant and Muslim faiths all gathered April 28 in Toronto’s Dundas Square to appeal to Canadians and the international community to do more to protect Ethiopian migrants in Yemen and South Africa.

TORONTO - Close to 1,000 Ethiopian immigrants — a mix of Orthodox, Protestant and Muslim — gathered in the late afternoon and evening of April 28 in Dundas Square to mourn together the death of two Ethiopian migrant workers murdered April 19 in Libya by Islamic State militants.

Published in Canada
April 16, 2015

Pope urges those guilty of brutality in Kenya to 'come to their senses'

A student wearing face paint walks past wooden crosses during an April 14 memorial concert in Nairobi, Kenya, for the 147 people killed in an attack on Garissa University College. Pope Francis is calling for perpetrators of extremist violence in Kenya "t o come to their senses and seek mercy."

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis mourned the deaths of all those killed in extremist and ethnic violence in Kenya, and admonished the perpetrators to "come to their senses and seek mercy."

Published in International