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This last tribute, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, will be held in Notre-Dame du Congo Cathedral in Kinshasa. A celebration in the presence of Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Denis Sassou-Nguesso. The body of the late cardinal in the DRC must then be buried in the cathedral along with his predecessors. With our special correspondent…

In the gallery we find Presidents Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Congo-Brazzaville, along with a whole crowd of officials and faithful. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo serves for this exceptional mass. He took the opportunity and explained how it was necessary to hire a man from this church who has worked so hard for democratization in his…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the plane landed from Paris with the remains of Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo on the afternoon of Sunday 18 July at Kinshasa Airport. The former archbishop of the DRC capital died on July 11, aged 81, in Versailles, near the French capital. He will have spent a large part of his life fighting for democracy. Many personalities were present at Ndjili International…

"Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo died in France", the title of the website states Radio OkapiArchbishop Emeritus of Kinshasa died on Sunday, July 11, at the age of 81. The Catholic prelate was seriously ill and his health deteriorated in Kinshasa. He was evacuated last Monday to France to receive appropriate care, says Radio Okapi."The Congolese church is in mourning," he wrote Vatican news. You can read the interview and…

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo urged the Congolese to be vigilant after the "conglomerate" bill was introduced. This text aims to introduce a condition for accession to the presidency of the republic to have a father and mother with Congolese nationality. "I urge you to resist hate speech and initiatives that exclude and divide…

Remember him as someone who was deeply patriotic and then tolerant, because we had a very divisive political climate. Cameroon loses or has lost someone who had the courage to say what he thought, he preached a lot for dialogue. I think the problem that the government had is that many leaders or many ministers fought to slander Cardinal Tumi, but they found out that the cardinal was really someone who was tolerant and wanted dialogue. Elie Smith, one…

The first regional elections must take place at the end of the week in Cameroon, in particular to give more autonomy to the English-speaking regions. For Cardinal Christian Tumi, former Archbishop of Douala, we must go further. It was a promise as a result of the great national debate a year ago in Cameroon. The first regional…

In Cameroon, Cardinal Christian Tumi has been released, according to several sources. Archbishop Emeritus of Douala was abducted on Thursday around noon. 18 in the English-speaking northwest of the country on the road between Bamenda and Koumbo. If Monsignor Tumi was released, the ten people who were kidnapped at the same time as him near Kumbo are still in the hands of the kidnappers.…

Cardinal Christian Tumi was kidnapped this afternoon by a group of armed men on the road between Bamenda and Kumbo. The Cardinal and Fon, the king of Kumbo, were captured in Baba by a certain general of the Ambazonians, his nom de guerre is Chaomao. I called the son of the King of Kumbo, who also confirmed to me that it is Chaomao, a former priest, because he complained that the cardinal was urging the children to go to school. Because for them, if school starts, it is a sign of normalization.…