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ABUJA, March 6, 2013 (CISA) -Bishops in Nigeria have called for the defence of human dignity in Nigeria.
“The defence of human dignity is an obligation of faith and every action committed against it is an act against God,” said the Bishops of Nigeria in a statement issued at the end of their Plenary Assembly under the theme ‘Faith and Dignity of the Human Being’.
The Bishops also denounced violence committed against innocent people by Boko Haram and other armed groups: “We denounce the fact that Nigeria is a place where people arbitrarily kill in the name of religion, a land where freedom of religion is limited only to certain people.”
The statement signed by Most Rev Ignatius Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos, and by Most Rev Alfred Martins, Archbishop of Lagos, the President and Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, stated that the offenses against human dignity are: murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, suicide, mutilation, physical and mental torture, undue psychological pressures, subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, trafficking and selling of women and children, and degrading work conditions.
These crimes, say the Bishops, “poison civilization and debase its authors more than their victims.”
According to Fides the Bishops say that Nigeria is facing serious threats to human dignity including poor governance, insecurity, corruption, moral collapse, violations of citizens’ rights on the basis of ethnic affiliation, religious belief, gender, and geographical origin.
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