English transcript

Acting these regions of Cameroon has brought Christian and Muslim communities closer than

ever before.

Indeed, your religious leaders have come together to establish a movement for peace, through

which they seek to mediate between the opposing sides.

I wish this would happen in so many other places of the world.

Your witness, your work for peace, can be a model for the whole world.

Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers, but woe to those who manipulate religion in

the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that

which is sacred into darkness and filth.

Yes, my dear sisters and brothers, you who hunger and thirst for justice, who are poor,

merciful, meek, and pure of heart, you who have wept, you are the light of the world.