{"id":1273,"date":"2011-10-24T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/24\/amecea-vatican-official-challenges\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:41:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T09:41:18","slug":"amecea-vatican-official-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/24\/amecea-vatican-official-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"AMECEA: Vatican Official Challenges Catholic Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Qiwbvane2ss\/TqkSm1nCQAI\/AAAAAAAAAEw\/y4akAFF1QKw\/s1600\/Fr+Tom.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"190\" ida=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Fr-Tom.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a>The General Secretary&nbsp;of the Pontifical Mission Society for&nbsp;&nbsp;the Propagation of Faith, Rome Rev. Fr. Timothy Lehane Basset SVD, has challenged the Catholic Media to do more in bringing awareness to the Catholic Faithful about Mission Sunday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the AMECEA Secretariat recently during his visit to the AMECEA offices in Nairobi Rev Timothy Lehane said that as the number of catholic population is increasing and more new dioceses created, the fund available for the new dioceses is getting less and less. Thus, there is a need of strategizing on fund raising to meet the needs of the Church. &nbsp;\u201cThere is a need of putting together our efforts to bring awareness to our faithful especially the contribution of Mission Sunday,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;\">Fr Lehane who is in Nairobi for a meeting of National Pontifical Missionary Societies PMS National Directors of English Speaking Africa (NDESA) Regional Meeting called for Catholic Media around the region to use their strength as Mass media to promote Mission Sunday. <\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;\">Fr Chrisantus Ndaga, the Secretary for Social Communication at AMECEA has promised to turn this challenge into an opportunity as he is planning to call a meeting that will bring PMS National Directors and National Coordinators for Communication to strategize how best they can use the Catholic and even secular media to bring awareness to the people\/faithful and so promote it before the mission Sunday of 2012. <\/div>\n<p><em>Source: AMECEA Social Communications office<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Secretary&nbsp;of the Pontifical Mission Society for&nbsp;&nbsp;the Propagation of Faith, Rome Rev. Fr. Timothy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4130,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/4130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}