Some of Burundi’s Catholic Bishops should be defrocked for denouncing intolerance and political violence ahead of next year’s elections, the Country’s authorities have said.
Presidential Spokesman willy Nyamitwe said in a tweet that the Bishops were Spitting venomous hatred with their incendiary words.
On Sunday, churches read out a message from Burundi’s conference of Catholic Bishops, which said those with differing opinions from the government were being persecuted and that some political parties were being suffocated.
A UN team earlier this month warned that crimes against humanity were being perpetrated ahead of the polls.
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