KENYA: Catholic Communicators Challenged to embrace ICT in Evangelization Drive

Catholic Communicators in the AMECEA region have been
meeting in Nairobi for a workshop aimed at creating forum for accelerating the
building of ICT infrastructures and capacities of AMECEA conferences.

Addressing the participants, Bishop Charles Kasonde,
Chairman for the AMECEA Social Communications challenged the communicators to
embrace the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a tool to
evangelization.

The bishop stressed that the workshop is crucial as it
envisages the empowerment of Catholic Communication coordinators and directors
in all the AMECEA Episcopal Conferences and lay Catholic media practitioners
and journalists in ICTs skills. “It is time to evaluate where we have come
from, where we are and how best we can move forward with our primary objective
of information dissemination and sharing,” said the bishop who  heads Solwezi Diocese in Zambia.

Participants to the workshop were drawn from the host
Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan.

Written by Prince Henderson and Makeda
Yohannes