Muslims across France attended Catholic Mass on Sunday morning in an expression of solidarity after a beloved French priest was killed by two men who claimed allegiance to the Islamic State.
"We're very touched," said Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen, where more than 100 Muslims gathered at the local cathedral, just a few miles from the site of the church attack. "It's an important gesture of fraternity," Lebrun added. "They've told us, and I think they're sincere, that it's not Islam which killed Jacques Hamel."
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