TANZANIA: AMECEA Hosts Workshop on Faith, Culture and Development
AMECEA member conference – Tanzania is hosting
a five-day Workshop on Culture which is jointly organised by SECAM, the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and the Pontifical Council for Culture (PCC) and Development in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania from 20th of November 2012.
a five-day Workshop on Culture which is jointly organised by SECAM, the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and the Pontifical Council for Culture (PCC) and Development in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania from 20th of November 2012.
A
press statement from communication office of SECAM (CEPACS) said there will about
seventy participants from the eight SECAM Regions in Africa comprising Bishops,
Priests, Religious, Lay people, and
resource persons from other parts of the world. There will also be
representatives from the Vatican, and partner organisations.
press statement from communication office of SECAM (CEPACS) said there will about
seventy participants from the eight SECAM Regions in Africa comprising Bishops,
Priests, Religious, Lay people, and
resource persons from other parts of the world. There will also be
representatives from the Vatican, and partner organisations.
The
participants will discuss among others the following issues:
participants will discuss among others the following issues:
· The need to have a structured
dialogue with the African Church regarding culture and development, which
includes pastors, theologians, ordinary people and the Africans in the diaspora.
dialogue with the African Church regarding culture and development, which
includes pastors, theologians, ordinary people and the Africans in the diaspora.
· Design programmes to facilitate Dialogue
between Cultures and Faith Evangelisation of Cultures in Africa –
opportunities, challenges and perspectives.
between Cultures and Faith Evangelisation of Cultures in Africa –
opportunities, challenges and perspectives.
· What Culture for what kind of
Development? African Cultures and Development, where do the problems of
development in Africa come from? Globalisation, Post-modernity, Good
Governance, and African Policies for Development – challenges for Africa.
Elements of the ideology behind these concepts
Development? African Cultures and Development, where do the problems of
development in Africa come from? Globalisation, Post-modernity, Good
Governance, and African Policies for Development – challenges for Africa.
Elements of the ideology behind these concepts
The
Workshop will also take into consideration the inspiration behind the need to
start this process of forming a Faith, Culture and Development Forum as contained
in the Post Apostolic Exhortations of the two Synods for Africa: Ecclesia in Africa (1995) and Africae Munus (2012).
Workshop will also take into consideration the inspiration behind the need to
start this process of forming a Faith, Culture and Development Forum as contained
in the Post Apostolic Exhortations of the two Synods for Africa: Ecclesia in Africa (1995) and Africae Munus (2012).
The
planned workshop is therefore seen as an opportunity for the Church as Family of
God in Africa to own the process of putting together the elements that will
guide the role and operations of the Faith, Culture and Development Forum.
planned workshop is therefore seen as an opportunity for the Church as Family of
God in Africa to own the process of putting together the elements that will
guide the role and operations of the Faith, Culture and Development Forum.
His Eminence, Theodore Adrien Cardinal Sarr,
First Vice-President of SECAM and Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal and Bishop Barthelemy Adoukonou, Secretary of the
PCC will co-chair the workshop.
First Vice-President of SECAM and Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal and Bishop Barthelemy Adoukonou, Secretary of the
PCC will co-chair the workshop.
The
Workshop will be preceded by a meeting of the Standing Committee of SECAM at
the same venue. During that meeting policy decisions on SECAM will be
discussed. There will also be a discussion on the process for an evaluation to be carried out on the Good
Governance Project of SECAM by officials MISEREOR, a German Partner Agency that has
been financing the project since 2006.
Workshop will be preceded by a meeting of the Standing Committee of SECAM at
the same venue. During that meeting policy decisions on SECAM will be
discussed. There will also be a discussion on the process for an evaluation to be carried out on the Good
Governance Project of SECAM by officials MISEREOR, a German Partner Agency that has
been financing the project since 2006.
SOURCE: AMECEA Social Communications office
