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Hollande: Church attackers claimed to be Islamic State
By EUobserver
French president Francois Hollande has said the men who killed an elderly priest in a church in northern France on Tuesday claimed to be from the jihadist group Islamic State. Speaking from the scene of the incident, which is being treated as a terrorist attack, he said he would fight IS "by all means". Speaking from Rome, Pope Francis called the killing an act of "absurd violence".