The Nigerian bishops’ conference is calling for a new beginning so as to save the country from “collapse” in the wake of recent violence.
This was affirmed in a statement distributed Thursday by the Nigerian Catholic Secretariat, signed by Father Louis Odudu, the deputy secretary general.
The statement responded to a wave of violence that claimed hundreds of lives and displaced thousands in the north of the country.
The confrontation began Sunday when a fundamentalist Islamic group called “Boko Haram” staged a raid on a police station in an effort to establish a Taliban-style regime based on a strict observance of Shariah law.
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Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishops Issue Call to end Violence
The Nigerian bishops’ conference is calling for a new beginning so as to save the country from “collapse” in the wake of recent violence.
This was affirmed in a statement distributed Thursday by the Nigerian Catholic Secretariat, signed by Father Louis Odudu, the deputy secretary general.
The statement responded to a wave of violence that claimed hundreds of lives and displaced thousands in the north of the country.
The confrontation began Sunday when a fundamentalist Islamic group called “Boko Haram” staged a raid on a police station in an effort to establish a Taliban-style regime based on a strict observance of Shariah law.
Read it all.