CEPACS, the Pan African Committee for Social Communications, a body created by African Bishops to spearhead the Church’s communication apostolate in Africa, has been given a new lease of life as it wound up the conference phase of its 50th anniversary celebrations held in Lagos, Nigeria. The Lagos meeting was from 18 to 21 November 2023.
Paul Samasumo – Vatican City.
Closing an intense two days of presentations, discussions, suggestions and recommendations from the various African Bishops and Africa’s’ communication professionals, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, the Archbishop of Kinshasa and President of SECAM, declared that it was impossible to imagine evangelisation in Africa without at the same time thinking of communication.
An African Church that communicates
Cardinal Ambongo said that Church communion is the reason for the Church’s very existence. In his…
