Local Sister Says Cameroon Feels ‘Fortunate’ for Pope’s Africa Trip

Local Sister Says Cameroon Feels ‘Fortunate’ for Pope’s Africa Trip

PARK SLOPE — Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming four-nation trip to Africa is stirring hope for a religious sister in the Diocese of Brooklyn who monitors ongoing political and social strife in her native country, Cameroon. Sister Hilda Agah, who teaches second grade at St. Saviour Catholic Academy in Park Slope, said the pontiff’s visit “is very timely and significant” for everyone back home in Cameroon. Other stops during the April 13-23 trip are slated …

Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon-The “Ambazonia crisis” in Southern Cameroons

Bamenda, the capital of Cameroon’s Northwest Region, which Pope Leo XIV will visit on April 16, is at the heart of the so-called “Anglophone crisis” that has shaken the country since 2016. The origins of the crisis date back to the colonial era. A former colony of Wilhelmine Germany, Cameroon was divided in two at the end of World War I: one under British mandate and the other under French mandate. The French-speaking part became independent in …