MALAWI: Modern Challenges of Faith Demands New Evangelization Strategies – Professor
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| Rev Professor Clement Majawa |
The Director of School of Post Graduate Studies at
Catholic University of Eastern Africa (UEA) Rev. Professor Clement Majawa has
urged the AMECEA Bishops to embrace the New Evangelization strategies in order
to cope with the challenges of Faith the world is experiencing.
Catholic University of Eastern Africa (UEA) Rev. Professor Clement Majawa has
urged the AMECEA Bishops to embrace the New Evangelization strategies in order
to cope with the challenges of Faith the world is experiencing.
Presenting his paper at the 18th AMECEA
Plenary Assembly in Lilongwe Malawi Prof. Majawa said that the new
evangelization is a timely opportunity to read and interpret correctly and
righteously the signs of the times and then work with Catholic Church’s
methodology towards true, deeper, and profound catechesis.
Plenary Assembly in Lilongwe Malawi Prof. Majawa said that the new
evangelization is a timely opportunity to read and interpret correctly and
righteously the signs of the times and then work with Catholic Church’s
methodology towards true, deeper, and profound catechesis.
“People’s faith lacks honesty, conviction, and
conversion. It is “Skeletonic”, superficial, and “lapsing”, he asserted.
conversion. It is “Skeletonic”, superficial, and “lapsing”, he asserted.
He stressed that new approaches of deeper
evangelization are needed to satisfy Christians who feel gaps in their life and
search for spiritual fulfillment elsewhere.
evangelization are needed to satisfy Christians who feel gaps in their life and
search for spiritual fulfillment elsewhere.
Noting that the modern church faces many threats
that never existed before, Prof. Majawa challenged the Church in AMECEA to seek
new ways of reaching out to the people in their grass roots beginning at the
family level.
that never existed before, Prof. Majawa challenged the Church in AMECEA to seek
new ways of reaching out to the people in their grass roots beginning at the
family level.
“Several studies have cited mushrooming of churches,
superstition, Satanism and devil worship among others as the emerging
challenges to evangelization,” he said.
superstition, Satanism and devil worship among others as the emerging
challenges to evangelization,” he said.
Other challenges, he noted, are, negative
ethnicity and tribalism, poverty and under development and double lifestyles by
some who profess Christianity.
ethnicity and tribalism, poverty and under development and double lifestyles by
some who profess Christianity.
“The Church needs to find methods of evangelization
that touch the hearts of the people, fill in the spiritual gaps, and invite
them to transformative conversion and witness,” he added.
that touch the hearts of the people, fill in the spiritual gaps, and invite
them to transformative conversion and witness,” he added.
He recommended that New Evangelization ensures
that proper catechesis, spirituality and witness lead to deeper evangelization.
that proper catechesis, spirituality and witness lead to deeper evangelization.
By Anatoly Salawa, Communication Office (Tanzania), Makeda Yohannes,
Communications Office (Ethiopia)
Communications Office (Ethiopia)
