AMECEA Secretaries General, during their Second Ordinary Meeting for the year 2015, which was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 8th to 9th October, extensively deliberated on the theme of the next AMECEA Plenary Assembly, which is scheduled to take place in Addis Ababa Ethiopia in 2018.
“Based on the inputs from member conferences which were then discussed by the AMECEA Executive Board members during their meeting in September, the Secretaries General unanimously agreed that the next AMECEA plenary should address the challenges of ethnicity and violence in the region that call for joint effort to work for sustainable peace and development,” says Rev. Fr Ferdinand Lugonzo, AMECEA Secretary General adding that, “still further consultations are being done pending approval by the AMECEA Executive Board members so that the theme can be communicated officially.
The Secretaries General also discussed the impending visit by the Holy Father, Pope Francis to two AMECEA Countries, Kenya and Uganda in November. “They expressed their appreciation to the Holy Father for choosing two AMECEA Countries for his maiden visit to the continent and they saw the need for full participation by all AMECEA Member Conferences by sending representatives,” Fr. Lugonzo said.
The Roman Pontiff will visit Kenya from November 25th to 27th; and proceed to Uganda where he will spend two days to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the canonization of the first African Saints, the Uganda Martyrs, by Pope Paul VI in 1964. From Uganda, Pope Francis is going to the Central African Republic (CAR), where he will wind up the trip on November 30th.
By Pamela Adinda, AMECEA Online News
