KENYA: AMECEA Secretaries General and Heads of Institutions meet ahead of 19th Plenary Assembly in Ethiopia
The Secretaries General and Heads of Institutions from the AMECEA Conferences concluded a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on Friday, 09 February 2018. According to AMECEA Secretary General Rev. Fr. Ferdinand Lugonzo, the meeting was held as a cross learning forum and also to evaluate the resolutions passed by the Bishops during the 18th AMECEA Plenary Assembly in Lilongwe, Malawi in 2014, and to plan ahead of the 19th Plenary Assembly scheduled to take place in July 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
According to the General Secretary of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) Rev. Fr. Daniel Kimutai Rono, during the Plenary Assembly in Lilongwe, the bishops deliberated on issues of pastoral, justice and peace development in the church and how the church can use its own institutions to spread the good news as a tool of evangelization.
Fr. Rono said that as a follow up meeting, they are gathered to find out how each conference as well as AMECEA Secretariat Departments have implemented the resolutions, highlight the challenges and recommendations to be presented to the more than 200 Bishops expected to attend the next Plenary Assembly of Bishops to be held from 13th- 23rd July, 2018 in Addis-Ababa Ethiopia.
“We are also to discuss the preparations of the forthcoming assembly that include logistical arrangements, identifying speakers, getting actual update on how far the arrangements are in Ethiopia and also discussing how to make the plenary Assembly successful,” Fr. Rono said.
The participants present in the two-day evaluation meeting include Secretaries General from seven out of the eight Episcopal Conferences that make AMECEA. These includes: Ethiopia, Eretria, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda. Sudan Conference was not represented due to unavoidable circumstances.
The meeting which was called upon by the Secretary General of AMECEA Rev. Fr. Ferdinand Lugonzo was also attended by heads of institutions of AMECEA, including Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), AMECEA Pastoral Institute Gaba and AMECEA Bakanja Seminary.
The theme of the upcoming assembly is “Vibrant Diversity, Equal Dignity and Peaceful Unity in God in the AMECEA Region.”
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By Rose Achiego, Waumini Communications Ltd, KCCB
