{"id":306674,"date":"2018-11-26T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T07:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/note-from-the-fontem-focolarini\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:38:39","slug":"note-from-the-fontem-focolarini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/note-from-the-fontem-focolarini\/","title":{"rendered":"Note from the Fontem focolarini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The wave of violence in Southwest Cameroon shows no sign of stopping. The focolarini have had to flee the little city, although they remain in the country.<\/em>  \u201cHow long can we hold out? What will happen next? Will we be able to still live in Fontem? We\u2019ve kept on, even in the most adverse conditions.\u201d  With these words the focolarini of Cameroon\u2019s little city shared their difficult decision on November 16 to not go back to Fontem \u2013 although they still remain in the country. There are just not the \u201cfundamental conditions to be able to continue living there.\u201d  \u201cMany things have happened,\u201d their message continues, \u201cespecially some serious incidents that made us reflect on the choices to make\u2026 It was with a heavy heart that we decided not to go back to Fontem for the moment, in order to rebuild our strength and try to understand what God wants.\u201d  The wave of violence in Southwest Cameroon, which is where Fontem is located, unfortunately shows no sign of stopping. In the last few months, the bishops of Cameroon have <i><\/i>several times tried to get their voices heard, raising \u201ca cry of anguish\u201d at the deteriorating security conditions in the English-speaking regions and calling for political mediation to avoid \u201cuseless civil wars.\u201d  The Focolare\u2019s little city is located in a zone of continuous armed conflict. It has had to close down its education complex for some time now, although the hospital continues to work and give aid to those in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wave of violence in Southwest Cameroon shows no sign of stopping. The focolarini have had to flee the little city, although they remain in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}