Following deadly attacks by radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram, Pope Benedict XVI, on Sunday, appealed for “an end to all violence” in Nigeria.
Pope Benedict, who made this statement during his weekly Angelus prayer, said, “I follow with apprehension the tragic events reported in recent days in Nigeria. While I pray for the victims, I ask for an end to all violence, which does not resolve problems but increases them, sowing hatred and divisions, even among the faithful.”

The pope noted that the attacks on Friday targeted Christian churches as well as police stations and an army base in Damaturu andMaiduguri.
The attacks, two days ahead of Sunday’s Muslim feast of Eid el-Adha, were among the deadliest ever carried out by Boko Haram, an Islamist sect based in the north of Africa’s most populous country.
Nigeria’s northern region is predominantly Muslim, with pockets of Christians.
Six churches were bombed in addition to a police station in a mainly Christian neighbourhood of Damaturu called Jerusalem, according to residents.
Boko Haram, whose name means “Western Education Is Sin” in the regional Hausa language, has targeted police and military, community and religious leaders, as well as politicians in past attacks.
The sect, which wants to see the establishment of an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, staged an uprising which was brutally put down by security forces in 2009.

From Naijapals.com