Cameroon: Bertoua archdiocese on fire as Christians announce general strike action

Catholic Christians in the Bertoua archdiocese are promising to rain down fire and brimstone via a general strike action announced for the 30th of July 2017. They say their anger can only be fuelled down if the archbishop, Joseph ATANGA is transferred from the east region. In a joint memorandum signed by some church associations, leaders and different groups, the Christians claim the archbishop, Joseph ATANGA has failed in his major duty as the main spiritual leader of the region.

 They complain mr ATANGA is at  the centre of a huge financial mismanagement and treats his subordinate prelates with so much contempt. Other sources told Cameroon Concord that the man of God is also involved in many sexual abuses. After all, he is said to be at the forefront of the promotion of homosexuality amongst priests. Recently, he is also accused of having covered up a network of paedophile priests in the Roman Catholic church in Cameroon as he refused to hand them over to judicial authorities for the law to take its full course.

The Christians who can not longer bear his actions have resolved to go on a massive strike come July 30th if he is not transferred from the east region. In their memorandum, they have copied the apostolic nuncio to Cameroon, the president of the episcopal conference, the east regional governor and many other local administrative authorities of the region.

This other scandal plaguing the catholic church is coming at a time when the corpse of the bishop of Bafia, Jean Marie Benoit Balla  who died mysteriously is still in the mortuary pending burial due to misunderstanding between the church and the state over the cause of the bishop's demise.