“I am particularly grateful to the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, for recalling the abduction of our priests and for praying for them during the Angelus.” So says Archbishop Andrew F. Nkea of Bamenda, in an interview with SIR following the kidnapping of priests and lay faithful in North-West Cameroon. The prelate affirms that “the crisis affecting Anglophone Cameroon is, in fact, a forgotten crisis” and expresses his sorrow in observing that “when one or two people are killed in Afghanistan or France, the news immediately spreads across all national and international networks,” while in his region “it happens that 5, 10, 15, sometimes 20 people are killed, without this being reported anywhere.” For this reason, he emphasises that the fact “a priest is kidnapped – or that priests and lay people are taken hostage – and that the Holy Father chooses to speak about it publicly, is an immense comfort for us.” Archbishop Nkea adds that such attention is “deeply consoling” and reiterates that “we are sincerely grateful to the Pope.” He concludes by underlining the need for the Pope’s words “to reach our hearts, to make us feel his closeness, and to remind us that the Church has not forgotten us, that it continues to think of us even when no one else seems to do so”.