Cathedral Heavily Damaged by Terrorist Bomb in Nigeria

Agenzia Fides: ” St. Patrick`s Cathedral was seriously damaged, windows and doors destroyed, the whole building was shaken to its foundations by the violence of the explosion”, His Exc Mgr. Oliver Dashe Doeme tells Fides, Bishop of Maiduguri, capital of the State in northern Nigeria. Yesterday afternoon, on June 7, an armed group set off a bomb near the Cathedral. Two police stations were also hit, in a series of coordinated attacks attributed by local authorities to the sect Boko Haram. The death toll of the attacks is 11 people. More on this here.