Senegal President Wade apologises for Christ comments

ICC Note

The President of Senegal apologizes after Christians protested against his comment about Christ.

12/31/2009 Senegal (BBC News)-Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade has apologised to the Christian minority for comparing a controversial statue to Jesus Christ.

Archbishop of Dakar Theodore Adrien Sarr said the comments had “humiliated” Catholics, leading to angry protests by hundreds of Christian youths in Dakar.

Mr Wade made the comments after imams condemned the statue as “idolatrous”.

Senegal has a long history of tolerance between majority Muslims and the influential Christian community, who make up some 6% of the population.

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The archbishop had said: “We were shaken and humiliated by the comparison which the head of state made between the monument to African renaissance and the representations found in our churches.”

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