YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Father Christophe Komla Badjougou, a priest of the Diocese of Yagoua in northern Cameroon, was in Yaoundé to get his visa to Italy when he was killed Oct. 7, waiting for the gate of the congregation where he was staying to be opened. Msgr. Paul Nyaga, the secretary general of Cameroon’s bishops’ conference, said that Father Komla Badjougou was supposed to spend the night at the Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Msgr. Nyaga said he was shot eight times, adding that it was still too early to say who shot the priest and why. Archbishop Jean Mbarga of Yaoundé expressed “deep sorrow” following the murder of the priest in his Oct. 8 statement, as well as solidarity and spiritual closeness with Bishop Barthélemy Yaouda Hourgo and the people of God in the priest’s home diocese. (OSV News)
