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The Focolare Movement recently received a letter from the district of Lebialem, Cameroon, signed by Mbeboh John, president of the Lebang Cultural & Development Organisation. In his letter, he expressed his appreciation to the President of the Focolare, Maria Voce, and to co-President Jésus Morán, for the choice made by the men and women focolarini to remain there in order to tend to the “old, sick, children, men and women who have taken refuge at the Mariapolis Centre”, despite the risks involved in staying.
Over the past two years, in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, found in north and south west Cameroon, where Fontem, the Focolare’s Little Town is also located and where the hospital “Mary Health of Africa”, founded in 1964 by Chiara Lubich was built, an armed conflict is underway between the English-speaking separatist groups and the central government of the country, which is in the majority French-speaking. Last year a radical group declared the independence of the English-speaking area. Subsequently the bishops of Cameroon denounced it as being “an inhuman, blind and monstrous violence, and a radicalization of positions”. It is in this context that the choice of the Focolare was made in order to be close to the Bangwa people, a circumstance which President Mbeboh John says takes us back to the very arrival of the Movement when Chiara determined to fight three wars; “the tse-tse fly and sleeping sickness, educational deprivation and material development”.
I want to thank the Focolare Movement for their steadfastness in Lebialem. Fontem, Lebialem and The Cameroons in general is undergoing trying moments. Actually, very trying moments. We continue to be grateful to the Focolare Movement for all what they are doing to our people. Please, do not leave Fontem or Lebialem in general. This hard time will come to pass.
Ich schließe mich Elemar an. Danke für Eure Treue und Euer Zeugnis ! Es gibt so viel Hoffnung ! Wir bereiten gerade ein ökumenisches Gebet für Euch und für Kamerun in einer der Stadtkirchen Augsburgs am 7. Sept. 2018 vor.
Il Vangelo non tradisci mai! Questa lettera è già la risposta del “chicco di granno caduto in terra….” …perché Fontem è L’ALBERO GRANDE DELLA FORESTA! Continuo ad unirmi nell’offerta e nella preghiera quotidiana!