A priest for nearly 55 years and a cardinal since 1988, he died on Holy Saturday.
Tumi served as Archbishop of Douala from 1991-2009, but it was not until several years after he had retired that he became a leading figure in efforts to resolve the Anglophone Crisis that has disrupted the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon. I have the deep sorrow of announcing the return to Eternity of His Eminence Christian Cardinal Tumi, said Archbishop Samuel Kledahe of Douala, in announcing his predecessor s death. Through the mercy of God may his soul rest in peace, the archbishop said on Facebook.
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Cardinal Dominik Duka of Prague (Photo: en.wikipedia.org/CC BY-SA 4.0)
Cardinal Dominik Duka of Prague has stirred up a controversy after he described COVID-19 as China s biological weapon, during a homily in Vitus Cathedral earlier this month.
His February 6 sermon featuring this claim has since been widely circulated and can be viewed here. The Chinese virus is the worst. It is a leaked biological weapon, the 77-year-old Dominican cardinal said.
He also maintained that his claims could be supported by the military. All military experts around the world are convinced of this, but they are either afraid to or do not dare say it, Cardinal Duka said.
Maryse Quashie (Photo by Charles Ayétan)
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (Propaganda Fide), recently sent a letter to bishops in mission territories urging them to consider renouncing the subsidies they receive each year from the Vatican.
Normally, dioceses in almost all of Africa, Asia and Oceania and some parts of Latin America receive funding from the Vatican-sponsored Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) to help finance their pastoral services and pay salaries.
But donations to the PMS have dropped considerably since the coronavirus pandemic hit more than a year ago and the Vatican is finding it difficult to funnel the usual financial resources to places traditionally considered to be part of the missions.
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa (Photo by Stéphane Ouzounoff/Ciric).
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, the latest addition to Pope Francis s privy council of chief advisors, is one of the leading Catholic voices on the African continent.
The 60-year-old Capuchin Franciscan has been head of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for just over two years. But he s no stranger to Church leadership positions.
A moral theologian with a doctorate from the prestigious Alphonsian Academy in Rome ( Alphonsianum ), he headed his Capuchin Order s vice-province in DRC and was president of the National Assembly of Major Superiors before being named bishop in 2004.