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France's religious leaders united after church attack
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(From left to right) France's Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia, French Jewish central Consistory President, Joel Mergui, President of Protestant Federation of France, Pastor Francois Clavairoly, President of the French Buddhist Union, Olivier Reigen Wang-Genh, French Cardinal, Andre Vingt-Trois, General Vicar of the Greek Orthodox metropolis, Grigorios Ioannidis, rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur, Boubakeur's aid and the vice-president of the French Council of The Muslim Faith, Ahmet Ogras, adresss the media after a meeting with French President, Francois Hollande, following Tuesday attack at a church in Normandy, July 27. (AP/Thomas Padilla)
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rance's main religious leaders have sent a message of unity and solidarity following a meeting with French President Francois Hollande after Islamic State extremists attacked a Catholic church and slit the throat of an elderly priest.
Hollande was to attend a defense council and a cabinet meeting later Wednesday.
Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, has called Catholics to "overcome hatred that comes in their heart" and not to "enter the game" of the Islamic State group that "wants to set children of the same family in opposition to each other".
Paris Imam Dalil Boubakeur said France's Muslims must push for a better training of Muslim clerics and called for a reform of French Muslim institutions to be on the agenda.
