L'EFFORT CAMEROUNAIS (ENGLISH VERSION)
The belief in Purgatory and EvangelisationBy Rev. Fr. Jean-Robert Ngandjui Purification is a familiar concept in Africa. In fact, most Africans have heard of it at least if they have not participated in it. Traditional African purification rites vary from region to region, but there is a physical bath at the core; the sacrifice of an anim... Moral courage in time of tragedy: the example of the Catholic Church in KenyaBy Fr. Gerald Nyuykongmo Jumbam We are not yet done with the Ebola virus when another kind of atrocity has again been committed on the African continent – the injection of Kenyan women with a tetanus vaccine corded with Beta–HCG to cause infertility and miscarriages. Recently the Bishops of Keny... Hon. Bochong Francis Nkwain “An Iroko tree has fallen”By Fr. Anthony Ndang Ndichia, mhm, Diocese of Kroonstad, South Africa If you see something good, you must say it. That which is good is never finished. It lives on…… Pa Bochong, your shock and sudden departure from this earthly life has left us heart broken. Yes indeed, it came so fast, nobody... SAJOPAMS Batchuo Ntai officially inaugurated, over FCFA 50 Million raisedBy Jude Abanseka in Bachuo Ntai Pioneer Batch of 63 SeminariansIt was as far back as 1973 that St. Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary, STAMS, Bambui was founded in English speaking Cameroon. Exactly 41 years after, another historic event has taken place in the Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province, precisely ... Some SOJAPAMS Major Seminarians speakViews sampled by Jude Abanseka Ignatius Nji: Bamenda Archdiocese We are beginning the foundation as far as the four formation pillars are concerned- intellectual, human, spiritual and pastoral. As one of the pioneers of this seminary, I have to do my best to lay a good foundation by meeting up with ... Pope Francis appoints Mgr. Jean Mbarga as Archbishop of YaoundéPope Francis named the Bishop of Ebolowa Mgr. Jean Mbarga on Friday, October 31 as Archbishop of Yaoundé, Cameroon. The Apostolic Nunico to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, Piero Pioppo, made the news public in Yaounde last Friday. Until his appointment, the Archbishop-elect had also been serving as... The 2014 Synod of Bishops: The Anatomy of a CrisisByMaurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai (AMDG) The October 2014 Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the theme of the Pastoral Care of the Family in the context of the New Evangelisation was truly extraordinary, and in many ways!For the records, it set out to present the beauty of the Christian family amid pres... A Synod On The Family In Paul VI’s SpiritBy Ireneaus Chongwain Chia The October 6 to 19 Synod on the Family in Rome has ended and contrary to widely reported western media projections that an “earthquake” could be expected from the Church on some controversial moral issues, the final report; and disapprovingly so for these lobbies, ind... |