• The Miami Herald/AP, Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:45 AM

The dean of Manchester Cathedral in northwest England urged the Japanese people to become involved in a dispute over a Sony computer game that that allegedly uses the British church as a backdrop for scenes of graphic violence.

The new PlayStation 3 game ''Resistance: Fall of Man'' involves a virtual shootout between rival gunmen with hundreds of people killed inside the cathedral. Church officials have described Sony's alleged use of the building as ''sick'' and sacrilegious.

Sony's video game unit said Wednesday it had begun talks with the Church of England over its complaint, but the Very Rev. Rogers Govender denied that at a news conference and appealed to "the people of Japan to help us put pressure on Sony to respond." The church has said it will consider legal action if the game is not withdrawn.

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