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The world's largest Christian church

Another example of African corruption and thuggery. From The Epoch Times:

The President and the Basilica
The world's largest Christian church has 7,000 individually air-conditioned seats, standing-room for 11,000 in a surrounding 3ha marble plaza, and enough room for 100,000 more � 300,000 at a squeeze � beyond that.

Yet the chances of even the 7,000 seats ever all being occupied at one time are about nil, because rather than finding this church in one of the great cities of the world, you'll discover it in a community of just 120,000 people in the middle of the jungled hills, arid plains and farmlands of Africa's Ivory Coast.

And poverty, for few homes away from this city's strange CBD have even the basics of running water and sanitation.

We're talking about Yamoussoukro, the Ivory Coast's capital, and it's unusual Roman Catholic Basilica of Our Lady of Peace.

A monument to corruption. Kim DuToit's ideas keep ringing true. Any aid money shipped over there lines the pockets of the rulers and the truly poor people don't see anything. Posted by DaveH at January 27, 2008 11:38 AM