AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE BISHOPS OF THE BAMENDA PROVINCIAL EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE ON THE RESUMPTION OF SCHOOLS IN THE NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST REGIONS OF CAMEROON

Introduction The Bishops of the Bamenda Provincial Episcopal Conference (BAPEC), at their 67th Ordinary Meeting in Bamenda from 16 to 23 August 2019, reflected on various issues affecting the pastoral life of the Church in the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda, whose territorial circumscription coincides with the territory of the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon. Top on our list of concerns was the extent of insecurity and misery that the socio-political crisis has imposed on the people of these two Regions, and especially on the children who have not been able to go to school for the past…