Faith-based groups meet to end ethno-religious crisis in Kaduna

Faith-based groups have converged on Kaduna to share ideas on how to end the bedevilling scourge of ethno-religious crisis in the state.

Participants included traditional title holders, religious and youth leaders, women organizations as well as the Association of Persons with Disabilities.

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The initiative, Daily Trust gathered, became imperative to strengthen Christian/Muslims relationship in the state and the country at large with a view to achieving lasting peace.

The co-director of the Interfaith Mediation Centre (IMC) in Kaduna, Reverend James Wuye, said the aim of the engagement was to promote peace and unity among adherents of the two faiths.

Speaking during a two-day Cross States Learning visit with delegates from Plateau and Kaduna, Wuye noted that the delegate comprising Christians and Muslims had paid visits to various chiefdoms and communities in the state to encourage religious tolerance and unity.