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Pope blasts ‘tyrants’ ravaging the planet during his visit to Cameroon
The pope urged leaders to end corruption and exploitation as separatist groups paused fighting and 6,000 people have been killed since 2016, the United Nations said.
- Pope Leo XIV criticized leaders who "turn a blind eye" to spending on "killing and devastation" while neglecting resources for "healing, education and restoration."
- The Pope condemned an "endless cycle of destabilization and death" in a "bloodstained" region of Cameroon gripped by insurgency for nearly a decade.
- The conflict in Cameroon's two Anglophone regions stems from the country's colonial history when it was divided between France and Britain after World War I, with English-speaking separatists launching a rebellion in 2017 to break away and form an independent state.
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With candor, Pope Leo confronts Cameroon’s ongoing abductions, killings in plea for peace
BAMENDA, Cameroon (CNS) — “The voices in the bushes.” That is the fear that defines daily life for many residents of this city in Cameroon’s troubled Anglophone region. “You don’t know where they are,” Cajetan Nfor told Catholic News Service April 16. “You don’t know how many of them there are.” A resident of Bamenda since 1964, Nfor has witnessed firsthand the rapid decline of the city he calls home. What began in 2016 as a political protest mo…
Bamenda. Pope Leo XIV criticized yesterday harshly the leaders who spend billions of dollars on wars and denounced that the world is “being devastated by a handful of tyrants,” in the context of his visit to Cameroon and days after U.S. President Donald Trump attacked him on social media.
A brief statement was made by a pontifique during his visit to Cameroon.
Cameroon: Pope Leo Excoriates 'Tyrants' Waging War Instead of Peace
Pope Leo XIV has admonished those waging war in the name of god and slammed "tyrants" destroying the world and its resources. The pontiff has stepped up his criticism of senseless violence, angering US President Trump.
World ‘ravaged by a handful of tyrants’, says Pope as he hits back against Donald Trump's attacks
Pope Leo XIV has criticised leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was “being ravaged by a handful of tyrants”, in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on Thursday, days after US president Donald Trump attacked him on social media.
The clash between the White House and the Vatican continues. Trump: "I have the right to disagree with the Pontiff, we do not need to meet him"
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