For Lasting Peace, Let’s “remember the good of others”: Catholic Bishop of Buea, Cameroon, on Diocesan Feast Day

“For us to have true and lasting peace, we must be ready to remember the good of others. We must be ready to encourage dialogue among people. We must be ready to show love and concern for one another,” the Cameroonian Catholic Bishop emphasized.

He continued, “For us to have true peace, we need to work to ensure justice in our communities.”

“Justice involves providing what is rightfully due to every individual. Should we all contribute what is rightfully ours to one another, there would be no justification for conflict,” he further said. 

The Cameroonian Catholic Bishop, who has been at the helm of Buea Diocese since December 2019, first as Apostolic Administrator, and since February 2021 as the Local Ordinary, cautioned against envy and greed.

“When something is owned by someone else and you desire to possess it, leading to a desire for ownership, conflict and animosity arise, perpetuating a cycle of living in a state of unrest,” he warned. 

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Referring to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), Bishop Bibi said, “Earthly peace is the image and fruit of the peace of Christ, the messianic Prince of Peace. By the blood of his Cross, in his own person he killed the hostility, he reconciled men with God and made his Church the sacrament of the unity of the human race and of its union with God.”

“We are called upon to be peacemakers. We are called upon to work in our different capabilities given by the Church to be at peace with ourselves, to be at peace with one another, and not bring anything that will take away the peace of our master Jesus Christ in our hearts,” he further said.

The Catholic Church leader, who started his Episcopal Ministry in March 2017 as Auxiliary Bishop of Cameroon’s Bamenda Catholic Archdiocese called upon the Clergy, women and men Religious to continue offering themselves as a sacrifices in the evangelization mission of the Church.

He encouraged the people of God under his pastoral care to “embrace the mission of evangelization and to believe in what they read, teach what they believe and to put into practice what they teach.”

“May Mother Mary continue to intercede for our Diocese so that we will all love and bring peace wherever we find ourselves,” Bishop Bibi during the July 11 Eucharistic celebration.