Nkwen youths settle for peaceful coexistence with Church

The recent standoff between Nkwen Youths and the Catholic Church particularly St Michael's Pariah Futru Nkwen has practically ended with the youth settling for peaceful coexistence.

During offertory on Sunday, November 15, 2015, in a Mass celebrated by the Archbishop of Bamenda His Grace Cornelius Fontem Esua, a group of youth calling themselves EMAUS Brothers took the Church by surprise with an avalanche of gifts composed of plantain, banana, water, toilet tissue and money.

Properly dressed with some in traditional Muslim habits, the youths danced with a lot of energy and happiness. Spotting a good number of those who lead a protest recently against the Church, this reporter later found out that the group was constituted from that which organised the protest recently.

Considering the protest as a sin against the Church, the youth returned to the Church and carried out some rehabilitation works which the Catholics described as penance.

Their Sunday offertory initiative, according to those we spoke to, was the hallmark of their readiness to coexist with the Church.

The youths now say as EMAUS Brothers they will be of better service to the Church.

According to the archbishop of Bamenda, their protest was out of place, noting that the Church does not function on tribal lines. His Grace Cornelius Fontem encourage them never to go back to such thoughts saying that they must stay together in the body of Christ; the Church.

Plenty of joy characterised the photography session that followed the Holy Mass.