BAMENDA, AUGUST 27, 2021 (CISA)-“Our people have suffered enough and they are tired of living in uncertainty and fear,” Catholic bishops’ members of the Bamenda Provincial Episcopal Conference (BAPEC) have said in a statement released after their 71st Ordinary meeting in Bamenda.
The prelates renewed their appeal for the end to the long conflict in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon.
“There is a lot of violence, insecurity, kidnappings, torture, and senseless killings, sometimes of innocent people and children,” they said as they appealed to “all armed factions to stop violence with immediate effect and work towards a more pacific resolution of this conflict.”
While in their meeting August 17-21 to deliberate on reports on schools, seminaries, pastoral commissions and projects of the Bamenda Provincial Episcopal Conference, the bishops noted that despite the challenges more Catholic schools functioned in the 2020-2021 school year.
They encouraged parents to ensure that their children go to school calling on stakeholders to create an enabling environment for children to have a violence-free academic year.
The bishops acknowledged with immense gratitude, “The work of the formators and the contribution of the lay faithful towards the training of priests for our local Churches. They exhort the Christians to take seriously their responsibility in helping the Bishops to discern good and quality vocations for our local Churches.”
During the meeting, the bishops announced the construction of the administrative block and hostels with over 140 self-contained rooms within the campus of the Catholic University of Cameroon (CATUC) in Bamenda for the 2021-2022 academic year.
I have been thinking a great deal about my experience at Reconciliation this past Saturday. I felt an intense and unexplainable urge to go and confess my sins when I woke up that morning. I try to go every six weeks or so, but this was no routine visit to the priest for me. I needed to unburden myself of the numerous venial sins I had committed since I last participated in this Sacrament.
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Picking up my pen to write this column, I couldn’t imagine how time flies. Since the last publication of this column I have gone through a lot, especially the loss of my dear mother to whom I dedicate this article. Not only her, but seems I lost a whole generation of my close family.
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Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita was born around 1869 in the village of Olgossa in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was a member of the Daju people and her uncle was a tribal chief. Due to her family lineage, she grew up happy and relatively prosperous, saying that as a child, she did not know suffering.
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