Abuja (Fides Service) - The Miss World context due to be held in Nigeria brought a violent reaction from Muslims in that country. Northern Nigerian states where the Sharia is law, refused entry to the Miss World candidates on the grounds that the contest offends Muslim moral teaching. Some 100 were killed and 200 injured in the violence. After November 21 riots in Kaduna, in northern Nigeria, where fundamentalist Muslims attacked Christians when a local newspaper published a blasphemous article with reference to the Miss World Contest and the Prophet, Fides Service contacted representatives of the local Church. Father Willi Ojukwu, parish priest at Holy Trinity Church next to the Nunciature in Abuja, said the next day, November 22, there was violence also in Abuja the capital: after the Friday prayers at the central mosque. "Hoards of angry Muslims rushed to the market place. The worst was feared - Fr Willi told us - However they only looted food stalls, rice and vegetables and no one was hurt." Rev. Andre Sampaio de Oliveira, at the Nunciature told Fides that the trouble started when the Miss World contest participants, young women from all over the world, interviewed by the local Nigerian media, voiced support for women condemned to stoning by strict Islamic laws. The Miss World event has been moved to London. (Fides Service 23/11/2002)