The tragic bombing and killing of worshippers at St Teresa's Catholic Church in Nigeria has dome more damage to the Muslim cause that anything else. Coming, as it did, on Christmas day, which is a holy Christian occasion, and targetting a church was the most misadvised and misplaced act ever. Noone ever does such a thing and expects to be accepted. There is just no justification.

Killing in itself is not condoned by any religion. Using religion to justify what is clearly a criminal act is deplorable Even those who may have sympathised with those who carried the dastardly act will now be inclined to distance themselves from the perpetrators These acts of violence stand condemned by all. And rightly so. The people who committed the act are worse than animils, because animals only kill when they are hungry. They kill for food. These creatures who killed innocent people in a church killed just for the sake of killing

My heart, and that of many Christians in East Africa, goes to the families of the innocent victims