Bernard Kinvi, O.S.Cam is a

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Catholic priest and a member of the Order of Saint Camillus. He is the head of a Catholic mission in Bossemptélé in the

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. He was awarded the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism by

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for protecting Muslim refugees in his church.

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