BENEDICT XVI: TO THE NEW AMBASSADOR OF CAMEROON, "TAKE ACTION AGAINST ARM TRAFFICKING"(2)

The presence in the country of a large number of refugees fleeing from conflict is also a reason for inviting "the nations of the region to increasingly respond to the requirements of security and peace, to face the different hotbeds of violence which hit the innocent population and the Church itself", as proven by the tragic deaths of mgr. Yves Plumey, of the Jesuit father Engelbert Mveng and the German Claretian friar Anton Probst". "One of the essential duties of the political leaders – stated the Pope – is certainly that of offering their population a social situation of peace and harmony, that will put an end to tensions and discontent, which normally end up in conflict, to make dialogue and the respect of the legitimate cultural diversity of different social and ethnic groups prevail, to build and unite the nation".