Lamenting the “corruption of morals,” Cardinal Jean-Pierre Kutwa of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) said on Easter Sunday that marriage between a man and a man, or between a woman and a woman, is an “abomination.”

Côte d’Ivoire, a West African nation of 27.5 million (map), is 44% Muslim, 18% Catholic, and 16% Protestant, with 22% adhering to ethnic religions.