In the conflict in CAR, hundreds have been killed or abducted and thousands driven from their homes. The Church has responded by organising relief and lobbying for peace, but the hostilities are fast becoming a religious war between native Christians and foreign Muslim fighters“Vive la France” rang out as 40,000 people welcomed the arrival of French troops late on Saturday at the Catholic Mission in Bossangoa, a town in the north of the war-torn Central African Republic.After days of unbearable tension and months of suffering for those trapped at the mission by the fighting, it came as a huge relief, said Fr Alain Eouanzoui, the vicar general of Bossangoa, adding: “We believe the nightmare might soon be over.”Further west in Bozoum, men with machetes and knives wer