Cardinal urges reconciliation in a fractured continent of Africa

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – In a fractured African continent, a leading African cardinal has urged the Church to restore hope to a people already moving toward hopelessness.

“The African continent is full of problems: Real poverty, political instability, violence, ethnic and religious conflicts, wars, terrorism, migration and refugees, bad governance, corruption, environmental degradation, trafficking in arms and drugs as well as people. There is despair and bad management of natural resources,”...