Priest in killing fields of Liberia defies the odds.(Fr. John Kilcoyne)

National Catholic Reporter | March 21, 1997| | Copyright

BUCHANAN., Liberia -- I spent just one night in Buchanan -- sleepless and scared, clutching a flashlight all night, wondering who was creeping about outside the straw walls of the compound. If my host, Fr. John Kilcoyne, was also scared, he certainly didn't show it. He has lived and worked in Buchanan throughout seven years of gruesome civil war and I'd lay odds he doesn't lie awake at night visualizing cutthroats outside his walls. He'll be planning the day's work ahead.

I'd come to Buchanan, Liberia's second largest city, to see Catholic Relief Services, ...

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