Goetbé Edmond Djitangar

"Jesus' attitude to women was contrary to the customs of his people many of which are similar to our traditions. The Gospel tell us that Jesus showed respect, love and acceptance towards the women he encountered. And the women were the ones who were faithful to him even under the cross and the first to be messengers of the Resurrection. The fact that from the beginning of his public life, Jesus was followed by a group of women is a challenge for our attitude to women in the Church-Family-of-God. We must encourage and help women to take their proper place in Church and in society. We must help girls to grow up as women free of any inferiority complex."

"There are different levels of dialogue. We have the "natural" dialogue among the neighborhood, among people living in the same areas. Then we have the somewhat distorted dialogue at the national level in which the state often uses religions as a means to impose itself. Since the state does not have a lot of authority over the populations while religious leaders have a strong ascendancy over their followers. So the state pressures religious leaders, Muslim and Christian, to achieve its goals. That is why we have made sure that interfaith dialogue is out of the reach of the state, which tries to influence it to its advantage."