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[caption id="attachment_26819" align="alignleft" width="300"] Fr Ndjimbi-Tshiende says he does not want to give interviews about the racist abuse[/caption]
A Catholic priest of Congolese origin has resigned in southern Germany after getting death threats and racist abuse.
Olivier Ndjimbi-Tshiende, 66, told parishioners of his decision during a church service on Sunday in Zorneding, a small town near Munich in Bavaria. A statement on the parish website (in German) said: "We are shocked and saddened by these [death] threats." He began preaching in the town in 2012. Tensions had arisen between him and two local conservative CSU politicians. Fr Ndjimbi-Tshiende criticised language used by local CSU leader Sylvia Boher in October. She had spoken of an "invasion" by Eritrean "refugees from military service". The surge in asylum seekers entering the EU includes many Eritreans fleeing military service, to avoid years spent in deplorable conditions for little or no pay. After Fr Ndjimbi-Tshiende's intervention a CSU friend of Ms Boher, Johann Haindl, lashed out at the priest with a racist insult. Both CSU politicians were heavily criticised over the affair and resigned from their party posts.