Pope: “Bamenda announces peace, many places should be like this”

Vatican City (Vatican), 16 April. (LaPresse) – “I am here to announce peace, but I immediately find that you announce it to me and to the whole world. In fact, as one of you recalled a little while ago, the crisis that has shocked these regions of Cameroon has brought the Christian and Muslim communities closer than ever, so much so that your religious leaders have united and founded a Peace Movement, through which they try to mediate between the opposing parties. In how many places on earth would I like this to happen.” Thus Pope Leo XIV at the peace meeting in Bamenda, Cameroon. Bamenda, in the north-west of the country, has been hit since 2013 by a forgotten conflict that has caused thousands of deaths and almost 500,000 internally displaced people.