Nigeria: Catholic Church Plans Legal Action Against Sharia

Dakar, Senegal — The Catholic Church in Nigeria plans a legal challenge to the Islamic Sharia law introduced by some States in the north of the country, the Archbishop of Abuja, Mgr John Onaiyekan said in Dakar Tuesday.

"Not only is it unconstitutional for the Sharia to be imposed on Nigeria as a Federation, it is unconstitutional for it to be imposed on any particular State or States, even if the State were 100 percent Muslim," the prelate told PANA in the Senegalese capital.

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