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| From left: Fr Anatoly Salawa; Fr Andrew Kaufa, Bishop-Elect Moses Hamungole, Fr Chrisantus Ndaga, Fr Paul Samasumo and Mr David Omwoyo |
The AMECEA Secretary of Social Communications Fr Chrisantus Ndaga together with some National Communication Coordinators from AMECEA member Countries are attending the Signis World Congress of Catholic Communicators in Rome that started on 25 February and expected to end on 2 March 2014.
The National Communication Coordinators attending the Congress with their countries in brackets are: Fr Paul Samasumo (Zambia); Fr Anatoly Salawa (Tanzania); Fr Andrew Kaufa (Malawi) and Mr David Omwoyo (Kenya).
The Congress unites the generations of over 300 Catholic Communicators from allover the World to explore the challenges of responding creatively to a New Multimedia Era under the theme of "Media for a Culture of Peace: Creating Images with the New Generation".
Reporting from Rome, Fr Ndaga said in the opening ceremony of the Congress, the audience was graced by the presence of the President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Most Rev Claudio Maria Celli.
Archbishop Celli said Communicators are constructors of culture. "Being citizens of digital world means taking part of a dialogue and giving oneself for reaching a common good and therefore, building peace.
Earlier, the Holy Father, Pope Francis sent a welcoming message to the participants of the Congress in which he challenged the Catholic Communicators to present the Wisdom, Truth and Beauty of the Gospel in a language capable of touching the minds and hearts of countless people who thirsty for meaning and their lives as individuals and members of society.
On Wednesday the participants joined the pilgrims from all over the world at St Peter's Square (Vatican City) for Pope's Audience. The general audience was held in the open at St Peter's Square in which the Holy Father delivered a Catechesis on the Sacrament of the Anointing of the sick. He encouraged the sick people including the elderly, to call for a Priest for the Sacrament of the anointing of the sick.
SOURCE: AMECEA Social Communications Office