Dominican Month of Peace 2025

Theme: “ Cameroon: Truth and Justice for lasting peace”. 

Link: Month of Peace – Cameroon
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Cameroon has a colonial legacy that dates back to its division between British and French colonial powers. This has created a continuous history of tension seen in economic marginalization, linguistic and cultural differences between the language groups and political dominance of the French Cameroon majority over the English Cameroon minority. These tensions erupted into an armed conflict in 2016 and continues to this day. The result is widespread human rights abuses, including killings, abductions, attacks on schools and other public institutions and private properties by both government forces and separatist groups. 

Cameroon is home to members of all of the branches of the Dominican Family.   Along with the people of Cameroon, our Dominican brothers and sisters face struggles in a country now divided with some 25% of the land controlled by paramilitary groups. Our Dominican Nuns and members of the Dominican Laity live within the volatile separatist region.  We have members of the Dominican Family serving on both sides of the separation. 

One focus of the Month of Peace will seek to shed light on the conflict and our Dominican Monastery, which has become a site of refuge for internally displaced persons who are fleeing the violence. Bambui, where the Dominican Nuns live, is located in the outskirts of Bamenda, which is in the North West region of Cameroon. It is one of the largest cities in English Cameroon and the hardest hit region of the conflict. Our project aims to make critical repairs to the Monastery, which will be of great help to the Nuns themselves, as well as to the suffering people who seek a safe haven with them.

Link: Dominican Month of Peace