Zambia Episcopal Conference has commended the initiative of AMECEA and USCCB of Capacity building program that aims at improving the skills of top diocesan leadership team and empowering them to work better, assist and advice local ordinaries.
Addressing the participants during the capacity building training held at Kasisi retreat centre on 3rd September 2015, the Bishop of Monze Diocese, Rt. Rev Moses Hamungole said, “On behalf of Zambia Episcopal Conference I would like to register our gratitude to the United States Catholic Bishops Conference for sponsoring this workshop earmarked for the top leadership in the Zambian Dioceses.”
Bishop Hamungole added, “Their financial support has enabled the Catholic Secretariat in collaboration with AMECEA to organize this workshop.”
To AMECEA, Bishop Hamungole said that he was grateful to the secretariat together with Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) for coordinating this training and wished that similar trainings be conducted in future for Bishops too. “I believe that we all need to sharpen our skills in order to respond to the new challenges in the local and universal Churches.”
To the participants, Bishop Hamungole said, “As close collaborators of your local ordinaries who have been entrusted with important responsibilities in the running of the dioceses, the skills you have attained will enhance your capacities to read the signs of time for the good of the diocese and entire family of God.”
A cross section of the participants interviewed by AMECEA Online News said that they have benefitted a lot from the training and they not only sharpened their minds but reminded themselves of their responsibility as well.
Over 50 participants from all the 11 Catholic Dioceses attended the training.
By Fr Chrisantus Ndaga, AMECEA Online News, Lusaka-Zambia