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Cameroon Christians Protest Abduction of Cardinal, Traditional Ruler

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE, CAMEROON - Suspected rebels in northwest Cameroon abducted a
   Catholic cardinal and a traditional ruler Thursday night.

   The Roman Catholic church in Kumbo says hundreds of supporters
   assembled at the cathedral Friday calling for the immediate release of
   Cardinal Christian Tumi and the chief of the Nso people, Sehm Mbinglo.

   The church says the 90-year-old cardinal and the chief, known as the
   Fon, were abducted Thursday night with their delegation just south of
   the town.

   "These are authorities that have been ordained by God and placed there
   to look over his people and so it is high time all the population, not
   only the Nso man but everybody should go out today and let the Fon and
   the Cardinal be released. This is something outrageous," Genesis
   Lukong, the secretary general of the Catholic Men's Association, told
   VOA via telephone from Kumbo, in Cameroon's Northwest.

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