Friday, December 29, 2006 at 12:12am
President teaches Baptists tough lesson
The president of the Central African Republic ordered the homes of two Baptist ministers to be set on fire as punishment for burning a rival pastor's house.
President Francois Bozize announced Thursday that he ordered the army to set the homes of the two dissident Baptist preachers on fire to teach them a lesson after they did the same to a rival pastor's house.
The president wanted "to make them experience the suffering they had inflicted on others," according to a statement broadcast on the private radio station Ndeke Luka, IOL.com reported Friday.
On Monday, members of a dissident branch of the Baptist church in Bangui, who were prevented the day before from holding a Christmas service in the chapel, set fire to the home of pastor Thomas Touangaye.
President Francois Bozize announced Thursday that he ordered the army to set the homes of the two dissident Baptist preachers on fire to teach them a lesson after they did the same to a rival pastor's house.
The president wanted "to make them experience the suffering they had inflicted on others," according to a statement broadcast on the private radio station Ndeke Luka, IOL.com reported Friday.
On Monday, members of a dissident branch of the Baptist church in Bangui, who were prevented the day before from holding a Christmas service in the chapel, set fire to the home of pastor Thomas Touangaye.