Cameroon

Thousands of churches closed in Rwanda, as Cameroon considers following suit

April 12, 2018 Featured
Pentecostal churches, like this one in Ethopia’s capital Addis Baba, are mushrooming in sub-Saharan Africa. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

World Watch Monitor – 12/4/18 Rwanda has closed thousands churches in the country since February for alleged “noise pollution” and failing to comply with building regulations. Now Cameroon – another majority-Christian country – is considering following suit. The call to shut down some of Cameroon’s Pentecostal churches follows reports of gross misconduct by a number of […]

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Boko Haram Claims Responsibility for Christmas Attacks in Nigeria

January 3, 2018 Featured
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Sputniknews – 3/1/18 While Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari recently announced that the terrorist group has been defeated, a recent video made by one of the organization’s leaders suggests otherwise. Abubakar Shekau, one of Boko Haram’s leading figures, has published footage in which he claimed that the terrorist group carried out several attacks in Nigeria’s north-eastern regions during the Christmas season, according to the […]

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Massive Killings of Christians in Africa ‘Dreadful’ – Russian Patriarch

August 30, 2016 Featured News
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Sputniknews – August 2016 Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill said that the events in Nigeria and Central African Republic linked with massive murder of Christians are particularly “terrible.” MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The situation with mass murder of Christians in Africa is “dreadful,” Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill said on Monday. “We […]

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Cameroon: Boko Haram Slaughters 100, Torches Churches

February 27, 2015 Featured News

Raymond Ibrahim – 27/2/15 Islamic militants fleeing a three-nation offensive took revenge Thursday, February 5, by attacking churches and shooting and burning to death as many as 100 people. According to Cameroon’s Information Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakari, approximately 800 militants from neighboring Nigeria’s Islamic terrorist organization Boko Haram entered the Cameroon border town of  Fotokol where, […]

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A new struggle is opening for the faithful of Sangmelima

February 22, 2015 Featured News
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22/2/15 – Cameroon By the grace of God, the blessings of our Patriarch and your own efforts, last September the construction of Saint Charalambos Holy Church was completed in the city of Sangmelima in Southern Cameroon, only 140 km away from the capital city Yaoundé. The construction started in 2007 and was financed through a […]

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DETAILS REGARDING THE ORTHODOX MISSION IN THE CAMEROON

March 13, 2009 News

Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All AfricaThirteen churches, two missionary centres, eighteen boreholes for drinking water, three field clinics, three schools, are just a few of the examples of the Greek contribution to the people of them Cameroon. Other works of the Orthodox Church follow, that support the people of the area: …

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HIS BEATITUDE CONTINUES HIS MISSIONARY VISIT TO NORTHERN CAMEROON

February 28, 2009 News

Continuing his missionary visit to the Northern Cameroon, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, accompanied by His Eminence Gregory Metropolitan of Cameroon, visited the Parish Communities of St Panteleimon Giri and St Christopher Buru on 18th February 2009, where he inaugurated the newly-built Primary School and St Spyridon …

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PATRIARCHAL DIVINE LITURGY IN YAOUNDE

February 22, 2009 News

In the presence of His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, ministers of the Government of the Cameroon as well as many Ambassadors, among whom were the Ambassadors of Greece, U.S.A., Russia, Japan, Spain and the Vatican, as well as all of the immigrant Greeks, the functions of the fiftieth […]

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FUNCTIONS FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HOLY METROPOLIS OF THE CAMEROON

February 22, 2009 News

The Holy Metropolis of the Cameroon celebrates fifty years of spiritual journey.It was founded on 23rd January 1959 as the “Greek Orthodox Holy Metropolis of Accra and West Africa ”. Today this Metropolis numbers in its jurisdiction the countries of Cameroon , Chad , Central African Republic , Gabon , Equatorial Guinea and the Islands […]

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