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France's religious leaders call for more security
By EUobserver
President Hollande met with France's Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist leaders Wednesday after two Islamist militants killed a Catholic priest in a church. Muslim leader Dalil Boubakeur said that "we deeply desire that our places of worship are the subject of greater [security] focus". The archbishop of Paris pledged not "to be dragged into" the was of the jihadist group Islamic State, which aims to set religions against each other.