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Catholic official asks Nigerian state to pay for 11 burned churches
05-08-2009
LAGOS, Nigeria (CNS) -- A Catholic official in northeastern Nigeria has asked the Borno state government to pay for 11 Christian churches burned by Islamic extremists. Father Heladuwa John William, administrator of the Diocese of Maiduguri, also said it was wrong to conclude that the five days of violence in late July were not related to religion because "no single mosque was reportedly damaged."
Father William made the appeal Aug. 1 and chronicled the violence in Borno, Bauchi, Yobe and Kano states.
Red Cross and military officials said that in Maiduguri alone, more than 700 people were killed in an uprising by Boko Haram, an extremist Islamic group that opposes Western education and insists on the imposition of Shariah, or Islamic law.
The violence began July 26 in the city of Bauchi, when Boko Haram members staged attacks after the arrest of some of its members. In his statement, released to journalists Aug. 3, Father William said the exact number of the dead in metropolitan Maiduguri was difficult to prove since there was no formal procedure for recording deaths.
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