Posted AT 5:05 PM EST on 23/12/07
Faithfully fighting malaria together
KATHRYN BERNDTSON AND ABDALLAH S. DAAR
Globe and Mail Update
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading about brutality and violence, often predicated on religious differences. Christians and Muslims have killed one another in Chechnya, Srebrenica, and Kosovo; Hindus and Muslims are slaughtered in Kashmir; Buddhists and Hindus die in Sri Lanka; Sunni and Shia Muslims battle in Iraq and Pakistan; Jews and Muslims lose their lives in Israel and the Palestinian territories the list goes on.
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