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January 16, 2013

Bishop in Mali says people in hiding, afraid to enter churches

Twins Hawa and Adama Keita, 15, warm a pot of tea in late November outside an area where 15 other family members rent rooms in a suburb of Bamako, Mali. More than 200,000 Malians have migrated to the south since a March 2012 military coup, while a simila r number have fled to Niger, Burkina Faso, Morocco and Algeria.

OXFORD, England - A Catholic bishop in war-torn Mali whose diocese lies in the path of Islamic insurgents said "people are hiding in their homes, unable to venture out."

Published in Vatican