Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese of the Catholic Church, Mattew Kukah, has urged Muslims in northern Nigeria to respect the existence of the Christian community.
Bishop Kukah made the request in an interview with Channels Television after a church mass in Malamfashi area of Katsina State in northwest Nigeria.
He said the Muslims must realise the importance of the Christian minority group of northern indigenes, if the northern part of Nigeria would move forward.
The Bishop also tasked the Muslims observing the ongoing fast to look beyond personal prayer points and check the ways they have failed to do what was right towards fellow people.
He said his sincere prayer was that every Muslim in Nigeria would really understand the values of their religion.
