Bishops and Coordinators responsible for Social Communications in regional conferences of Africa are scheduled to meet in Ghana’s capital, Accra from Monday, June 6, to deliberate on how to make use of the modern means of communication to evangelize.
The Chairman of the Pan-African Committee for Social Communications (CEPACS), Bishop Emmanuel Badejo of Oyo (Nigeria), has convened the meeting “in order to chart a new course for the improvement and coordination of social communication activities” on the continent.
“For a long time CEPACS has been without a Chairman hence the lack of meetings and other activities of this body at the continental level,” Bishop Badejo remarked in his invitation letter to Regional Episcopal Chairmen of Social Communications, adding that he has been studying the work of CEPACS since his appointment.
SECAM appointed Bishop Badejo to head CEPACS in February 2015.
Among the agenda items for the meeting include presentation of the SECAM Strategic plan, discussion on how the various commissions and departments of SECAM can collaborate with communication offices at regional and continental levels, the Catholic News Agency for Africa (CANAA), recommendations to the 17th SECAM Plenary scheduled for July 18-25 in Angola, among others.
Participants at the CEPACS meeting will also receive input on developing and managing websites for the Church in Africa and the setting up of email address for Bishops’ conferences using the SECAM domain.
CEPACS is made up of Bishops Chairmen for Social Communications of the eight regional Conferences of Bishops that constitute the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM).
The eight regional conferences include: Regional Episcopal Conferences of West Africa (RECOWA-CERAO), Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA), Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA), Association Des Conferences Episcopales De L’afrique Centrale (ACEAC), Association Des Conferences Episcopales De La Region De L’Afrique Centrale (ACERAC), Assemblee De La Hierarchie Catholique D’Egypte (AHCE), Conference Episcopale De Madagascar Et De L’ocean Indien (CEDOI), and Conference Episcopale Regionale Du Nord De L’Afrique (CERNA).
Source:CANAA
