Cameroon: Easter celebrations mourned in Yaoundé by the death of Cardinal Tumi
The Notre-Dame-des-Victoires cathedral in Yaoundé in 2020 (Illustrative image).
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The Easter celebrations were marked in Cameroon by the death of Cardinal Christian Tumi on Saturday April 3.
The faithful were moved the day after the death of this important man of the Church for the country.
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With our correspondent in Yaoundé,
Polycarpe Essomba
It's an Easter Sunday like no other in Yaoundé.
Despite the celebration of the rebirth of Christ, impossible for Jean Martin, faithful of the Notre-Dame-des-Victoires Cathedral, not to have a moving thought for
Cardinal Christian Tumi
.
“
We have regrets.
For the Church, this is truly a great loss.
You know, he has done so much for Cameroon and for Africa.
And besides, he's our first cardinal.
We only have tears,
”he confides.
Involved in Cameroonian politics
More than a man of the Church, he was also a man of conviction whose positions have often embarrassed the authorities.
Such is the legacy that the prelate leaves to posterity, considers Antonin Siga.
“
He was on the sidelines of the excesses of the pastors of the Church who sometimes make friendships with men in power.
He was free to think.
On the problems of the NoSo
[Anglophone secessionist crisis in the North-West and South-West of Cameroon, editor's note]
,
he said the right thing
.
"
For this Christian, the cardinal's death in the middle of Easter week is also a symbol: “
The fact that he dies during Holy Week, that says it all.
The choice that was made for him to become a cardinal was not trivial.
"
For all these Christians and more generally for all Cameroonians, with the disappearance of this man of the Church, Cameroon has just lost one of its greatest voices, but also one of its greatest moral authorities.
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