#BreakingNews Priest Lured by a Call to Minister to the Sick at Night is Killed - RIP Fr. Olivier Ntsa Ebode

A  priest in Cameroon, Africa, Fr. Olivier Ntsa Ebode, was found dead in Obala. He was lured out his house at night by men asking him to come and minister to a sick family member. Fr. Olivier Ntsa Ebode, a  priest in the Lékié region of Cameroon, was found dead.

According to local press reports, he was murdered in the night between the 28th of February and the 1st of March, after being lured out of his house by men claiming that a relative of theirs was sick and wanted to see him. Cameroonian news website 237online said, that Fr Ebode was a “respected figure” in the community, known for his commitment to peace and social justice. Instability is on the rise in Cameroon, parts of which are suffering from conflict between government forces and separatists. Around 800,000 people are estimated to have been displaced, and at least 6,000 killed.

Edited from Vatican News

UPDATE : Catholic Bishop Sosthène Léopold Bayemi Matjei has said Father Olivier Ntsa Ebode, who was killed in a town of Obala's Lékié central region of Cameroon, was a priest of a separate Christian community and not of the Catholic Church. Earlier this week, several Church news outlets in Africa spoke about the killing of Fr Olivier, mistakenly identified as a Cameroonian Catholic priest. Our brother in humanity “We have learned with grief the heinous murder in Obala of Fr. Olivier Ntsa Ebodé, a priest of a separate Christian community,” said the Catholic Bishop of Obala, Sosthène Léopold Bayemi Matjei, in his message of condolence to Cameroon’s “Gallican Catholic Church.” “This brother in humanity” is not a priest of the Diocese of Obala, let alone of the Roman Catholic Church, said Bishop Sosthène Léopold Bayemi Matjei while at the same time strongly condemning the murder. He called on authorities to bring to justice the killers of Father Olivier. The Gallican Church, founded in 2000, is the successor to the 1916 Saint-Louis Cultural Association of France. It is a community that claims to be Catholic but is not recognised by any church.