Africa: from violence to peace

Lauren Gunias  |  World
Date posted:  1 Sep 2015
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Africa: from violence to peace

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On 28 July in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, making an American president’s first speech to the African Union, President Obama said: ‘Many of these groups claim the banner of religion, but hundreds of millions of African Muslims know that Islam means peace’.

For millions of Muslims, that may be true. But for one Muslim cleric, it was not. This is his story.

Tofik (not his real name) grew up in Islamic schools and became an imam in his East African village. Several deeply personal revelations brought him to Christianity, at the risk of his life.

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