{"id":18618,"date":"2023-11-20T10:45:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=18618"},"modified":"2023-11-20T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:55:36","slug":"cepacs-nigeria-cepacs-at-50-archbishop-badejo-preaches-unity-for-effective-communication-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2023\/11\/20\/cepacs-nigeria-cepacs-at-50-archbishop-badejo-preaches-unity-for-effective-communication-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"CEPACS NIGERIA: CEPACS at 50: Archbishop Badejo Preaches Unity for Effective Communication in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The President of the Pan African Committee for Social Communications (CEPACS), Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo has expressed a need for unity for effective communication toward the evangelization of the gospel.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his homily during the thank-giving mass for the 50th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of CEPACS at Holy Cross Cathedral in the Archdiocese of Lagos, Nigeria, on Sunday, Bishop. Badejo said unity is key to effective communication in a synodal church.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bishop Badejo said the ongoing process of synodality that seeks a more communal, more responsive response to the people of God, and more relational, not only to the Catholics, will be effective if communication is effective.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSynodality that means walking together, listening more to one another, and making sure that no one is left behind\u2014that objective in itself is a call for more effective communication,\u201d said the Local Ordinary of Oyo Diocese, Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n

In reference to the Holy See\u2019s Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, Dr. Paolo Ruffini\u2019s message the true purpose of communication is to build communion and relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Ruffini said that communication is more than just conveying information; it is more than personalities and media practitioners.<\/span><\/p>\n

Established in 1973 by SECAM in Ibadan, CEPACS is the Pan African Episcopal Committee for Social Communications.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 50th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of CEPACS is being commemorated under the theme \u201cCEPACS at 50: Towards Promoting a Synodal Church in Africa through Social Communications.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The President of the Pan African Committee for Social Communications (CEPACS), Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Adetoyese…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news","category-secam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18618","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18626,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18618\/revisions\/18626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}