Afrigather 5 monks, 1 spiritual sister and three laypeople who had been kidnapped on Sept. 16 within the Cameroonian diocese of Mamfe are actually free, the diocese introduced.
“It’s with nice pleasure that I announce the discharge” of 5 Catholic monks, one consecrated sister and two laypeople, Bishop Aloysius Fondong Abangalo wrote in his communiqué dated October 23.
The Mamfe diocese situated in South West area is one in every of two restive areas in Cameroon the place separatists have been waging warfare to the federal authorities since 2017.
On the night of September 16, the Christians had been kidnapped and St Mary’s Church in Nchang (South West area) was burned down.
Murders, ransackings and kidnappings have turn into frequent on this area, the place armed separatist teams frequently goal faculties and lecturers specifically, but additionally Catholic and Protestant church buildings and their prelates. However the bishops of the area guarantee that Friday’s kidnapping is “fully unprecedented” in its scale.
Final month, Archbishop Andrew Nkea, the president of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda, didn’t give any particulars of the assault, didn’t attribute it to anybody specifically and stated that the abductors had given “no concrete purpose” for the act.
Within the communiqué issued by Bishop Aloysius Fondong Abangalo, Sunday, no data on the abductors was given.
“Taking away the liberty of our brothers and sisters to earn a living in any respect price is inhumane”, the bishop of Mamfe merely condemned.
