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Paganism and Christianity in Cameroon. This is an interview filmed by Presbyterian Missionary Nathan Conkey in Cameroon. The person being interviewed is an African prince in Oku-land in the north-west …More
Paganism and Christianity in Cameroon.

This is an interview filmed by Presbyterian Missionary Nathan Conkey in Cameroon. The person being interviewed is an African prince in Oku-land in the north-west of the country who is a part of the christian minority and he is discussing the paganism in the country as well as its relationship to the church.

The prince says that the pagans try to appease the gods and perform magic spells, and that they are afraid that they will lose their culture if christianity comes in. And the prince says that the church has been trying to adapt the local culture into a worship of God so that people need not fear losing their culture. He also talks about how worship of the gods is giving homage to the evil one and that Christ will set them free from him.

20. This situation has come about from a number of causes, which are in general the outcome of rather recent historical events, and it has further been influenced to some extent by the conduct of certain nations that glory in the fact that the light of Christianity illuminates their annals. There is every reason, therefore, why We should be subject to no small anxiety with regard to the fortunes of Catholicism in Africa. There is every reason too why all the Church's children should clearly realize their serious obligation to give more effective assistance to the missionaries. This they must do at the opportune moment in order that the message of saving truth may be brought to what is called "darkest" Africa, where some 85,000,000 people still sit in the darkness of idolatry. - Pope Pius XII, 1957, Fidei Donum

All Glory to God.