ETHIOPIA: ‘Diversity is an Opportunity for enriching the World’, AMECEA Bishops told
Rev. Fr. Stephen Mbugua Ngari, Vice Chancellor Designate of Tangaza University College
AMECEA Bishops have been urged to bank on the diversity of its members within the region and beyond as an opportunity of enriching the world with goodness so as to manifest the divine greatness of God.
Speaking during a presentation on 18th July, 2018, the Vice Chancellor designate of Tangaza University College, Kenya Rev. Fr. Stephen Mbugua Ngari said that Bishops the diverse approach in the AMECEA countries is embraced in its mission that inspire and empower God’s family in AMECEA to a credible and prophetic witness to Christ by promoting unity, justice, peace, and solidarity.”
In his presentation, Fr. Mbugua emphasized that diversity was God’s creation and should be utilized positively to enrich the world with goodness so as to manifest the divine greatness of God. He further explained that most AMECEA countries have been negatively affected and diversity has been used to divide and discriminate people in terms of race, gender, politics and even tribes.
during Eucharistic Celebrations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
In an interview with AMECEA Online News, Fr. Mbugua urged the Bishops to aspire changing the world view from micro to macro diversity where people see themselves as citizens of the world and as brothers and sisters. He said that the Church must always look into the root causes of the negative diversity that destroy the society and come up with better resolutions.
“I would like the Catholic Church in AMECEA countries to constitute commissions that will identifying the root causes of negative diversity, be it economical, political or social to help improve the integration of the people in the AMECEA region and beyond,” Fr. Mbugua said adding “The curriculum in schools should include issues of universal citizenship, and AMECEA should also create avenues where people appreciate and integrate others.”
He said that diversity was created by God himself and that creation itself is diverse not only among human beings but among plants and animals too. “The whole creation is diverse,” he said.
Fr Mbugua said that diversity has affected the AMECEA region both negatively and positively. “Positively that we are one family who proclaims the word of God and it also gives us the identity as Catholics as a universal Church. Negatively, when diversity causes conflicts which lead to destruction and loss of innocent lives,” he said.
Fr Mbugua wanted the Catholic Church in AMECEA to address the root causes of conflict in the region I order to solve the problem of the negative diversity.
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By Sr. Antoinette Jecinter Okoth, FSSA
