ZAMBIA: ZCCB to Host AMECEA Secretaries General’s Meeting
Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) will from the 22nd to 26th August, 2016 host the regular meeting of Secretaries General from Association of Member Episcopal Conference Eastern Africa (AMECEA) member countries.
ZCCB Secretary General Rev. Fr. Cleophas Lungu, said the meeting will be held in Lusaka.
“This is a regular meeting of Secretaries Generals in the AMECEA Region which has a membership of 8 Conferences. We are hoping to see of them all coming, though it’s difficult for some countries like Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan,” he said.
He further said that the meeting will review AMECEA programmes and look at how countries are implementing the recommendations made by the Bishops during the last AMECEA plenary in Malawi.
“The AMECEA Bishops in their last plenary meeting in Malawi made resolutions that, as a Region and respective conferences are to implement, so it is one of the matters that we shall be discussing,” Fr. Lungu said.
Fr. Lungu has also said that the meeting would review AMECEA Secretariat programmes.
“You might be aware that AMECEA Secretariat runs a lot of programmes like training of church leaders, so we shall look at that too and see how to improve the topics or the curriculum,” he added.
“This meeting shall also be of pastoral solidarity, where we will have the opportunity to give support and encourage to each other as Secretaries General,” he concluded.
The meeting will be held at ZCCB Kapingila House in the Catholic Secretariat premises.
The last AMECEA Secretaries General’s meeting was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
By Mwenya Mukuka, ZCCB Communications Officer
