TANZANIA: Church in Need Staff Pay a Courtesy Visit to the Participants of the COLEA Conference

The Staff from Church in Need, a Germany based
Pontifical Catholic Agency on 28th November 2014 paid a courtesy
visit to the participants of Conference for the revitalization of the Council
of the Laity for Eastern Africa (COLEA), which is currently going on in Dar es
salaam, Tanzania.

The visitors from Germany included Christine du Coudray,
Tony w. Zender, Adelheid von Gemmingen and Philipp Ozores.

Presenting her solidarity message to the
participants Christine Coudray said she was grateful to have a chance to attend
part of the conference whose theme is “Marriage and Family Life, the Future of
the Church and Society.”

Recalling the extraordinary synod on the family
held in Rome in October this year, Christine applauded the unity of African
Bishops who came up strongly against same sex marriage. “This demonstrated the
strength of the Church in Africa,” she said.

Christine also said that she is against new expressions
adopted by UN and other international agencies where they have changed some of
the traditional words, like spouses, couples instead of husband and wife; reproduction
which is basically meant for animals for pro-creation –the right expression for
human beings. According to her, African societies should decline using these
words for the benefits of the future generation.

Christine was also grateful for the partnership
which they have with the Church in Africa. Their visit to some of the dioceses in
Tanzania demonstrates the strong collaboration that has existed for a long time
with the Church in Africa. 

SOURCE: Fr Chrisantus Ndaga, AMECEA Social Communications, Dar es Salaam