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| Group Photo of the Participants of the Training Workshop |
The workshop which was facilitated by AMECEA Office of Communication was held at Ifakara from 18 -21 November, 2013 and attracted participants from all over the Diocese. The participants included the Priests, Religious Sisters, and Leaders of the council of laity, Youth and other Catholic Associations Leaders and Catechists.
According to Fr Wenceslaus Kayera, the Secretary General of the Diocese who is also heading Communication department, the workshop training aimed at preparing the ground for the establishment of a Three-Year Strategic Plan of communication for the new Diocese of Ifakara.
Speaking during the opening ceremony of the workshop training, the Bishop of the Ifakara Diocese Rt. Rev. Salutaris Libena said the training is part of the plan that every department within the diocese has to conduct such kind of training in view of establishing a strategic pastoral plan for the Diocese of Ifakara.
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| Participants during the training workshop session |
Bishop Libena said communication is very vital in the whole pastoral mission of the Church. The Church as a communion-in-mission has to begin by evangelizing herself by the life and ministry of Jesus. Evangelization similar to communication, calls us to share the Good News, Christ Message with other people.
“That is why we say that Social Communication is intimately linked with Evangelization mission of the Church within herself (ad intra) and to the outside world (ad extra). This involves also all areas of human behavior, thought patterns, social and cultural dynamics, environment and modern technology,” he said.
Commenting on the training the AMECEA Secretary for Social Communications Fr. Chrisantus Ndaga who was the general facilitator of the workshop training said the participants responded very well to the topics presents and wished that the same could done to other groups within the diocese.
Fr. Ndaga said that the training started by giving some introduction on communication followed by establishing communication needs/priorities for the Diocese vis-a-vis Evangelization role through media and finally set up some strategic plans for implementation as the way forward of the workshop.
The new Diocese of Ifakara was erected on January 14, 2012, by the Holy Father Benedict XVI with territory taken from the Diocese of Mahenge, making it a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam. The new diocese of Ifakara is located in the civil district of Kilombero, in the north of the current Diocese of Mahenge. It is bordered to the east with the Diocese of Morogoro, to the west with the Diocese of Iringa, to the south with the Archdiocese of Songea and the Diocese of Njombe.
SOURCE: AMECEA Social Communication