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CAMEROON: End to Violence Appeals Dominate Cardinal Tumi’s Burial in Douala By Arnold Neliba DOUALA, APRIL 23, 2021 (CISA)– “Africa has had enough,” Philippe Cardinal Ouédraogo President of Symposium of Episcopal Conferences in Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) has said appealing for an end to violence in Cameroon and across Africa in honour of late Cardinal Christian Tumi. The Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso was speaking at Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Douala during funeral Mass of Cardinal Tumi held on April 20. “People hungry for blood like Cain kill their brothers witho...

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A priest for nearly 55 years and a cardinal since 1988, he died on Holy Saturday. Tumi served as Archbishop of Douala from 1991-2009, but it was not until several years after he had retired that he became a leading figure in efforts to resolve the Anglophone Crisis that has disrupted the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon. "I have the deep sorrow of announcing the return to Eternity of His Eminence Christian Cardinal Tumi," said Archbishop Samuel Kledahe of Douala, in announcing his predecessor's death. "Through the mercy of God may his soul rest in peace," the archbishop said on F...

Cardinal Christian Tumi, retired archbishop of Douala, Cameroon, attends a consistory ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 24, 2012. Tumi died April 2, 2021, at the age of 90. (CNS/Abaca Press/Eric Vandeville/Reuters) Vatican City — Even in his old age, Cardinal Christian Tumi, the retired archbishop of Douala, Cameroon, was a force for peace and reconciliation in his country, Pope Francis said after the 90-year-old cardinal died April 2. In fact, in November, a month after his 90th birthday, the cardinal and 12 other people were kidnapped in the northwest ...

The transition to glory of the 91-year-old prelate leaves Cameroon with a challenging assignment of upholding his legacy of justice as an ingredient for lasting peace.