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“We stand in solidarity with innocent civilians”: Cameroonian Catholic Archbishop on Deadly Market Explosion

Sep 20, 2024

Archbishop Andrew Fuanya Nkea of the Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda in Cameroon has expressed his solidarity and spiritual closeness with families and victims of a bomb blast in a market in his Episcopal See that left one person dead.

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