US EditionPope blasts ‘tyrants’ ravaging the planet during his visit to Cameroon
He urged Christian and Muslim leaders to mediate an end to a conflict that has killed more than 6,000 people and displaced over 600,000, officials said.
- Pope Leo XIV criticized leaders who "turn a blind eye" to spending on "killing and devastation" while neglecting resources for "healing, education and restoration."
- The Pope condemned an "endless cycle of destabilization and death" in a "bloodstained" region of Cameroon gripped by insurgency for nearly a decade.
- The conflict in Cameroon's two Anglophone regions stems from the country's colonial history when it was divided between France and Britain after World War I, with English-speaking separatists launching a rebellion in 2017 to break away and form an independent state.
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Pope slams 'tyrants' on Cameroon visit as Trump spat continues
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday criticised the "tyrants" ransacking the world, on a high-security visit to a "bloodstained" region of Cameroon, as his war of words with US President Donald Trump continued.
In recent days, US President Trump has poisoned the Pope several times. Now, during his visit to Cameroon, the Pontiff speaks of tyrants who destroy the world. The Church leader does not mention names in his speech.
Leo XIV wanted to inspire peace between the Government of Cameroon and independenceists, but he did not fail to accuse a "punch of tyrants" of "destroying" the world, and to drag the "sacred" into the "imundice".
When Donald Trump’s insults to Pope Leo XIV are still resounding, the Pontiff has stood at the epicenter of one of the forgotten wars on the planet, the Ambazonia war. It is a secessionist conflict in Cameroon that in ten years has caused at least 6,000 deaths and 500,000 displaced, according to the UN. In Bamenda, the capital of this region, the Pope has met with hundreds of victims and condemned the wars and lamented that “the world is being d…
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n1info.rsPoglavar Rimokatoličke crkve, papa Lav Četrnaesti žestoko je danas u molitvi u Cameroon, epicenter one of the most zanemarenijih kriza na svetu, osudio "šačicu tirana" koja ratom i ploatacijom pljačka Zemlju.
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