{"id":21606,"date":"2025-01-17T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=21606"},"modified":"2025-01-17T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:30:39","slug":"amecea-communicators-in-amecea-set-for-jubilee-in-rome-ready-to-learn-new-communication-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/amecea-communicators-in-amecea-set-for-jubilee-in-rome-ready-to-learn-new-communication-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"AMECEA: Communicators in AMECEA Set for Jubilee in Rome, Ready to Learn New Communication Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the first event for the year-long Jubilee of Hope targeting communicators across the world is fast approaching, dozens of participants comprising the Presidents for Episcopal Communication Commissions and Directors of National Communication offices from the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) region are set to be part of this major celebration in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/archive\/hist_councils\/ii_vatican_council\/documents\/vat-ii_decree_19631204_inter-mirifica_en.html\">decree Inter Mirifica in 1963<\/a>, on media of social communications and the pastoral directive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/pontifical_councils\/pccs\/documents\/rc_pc_pccs_doc_23051971_communio_en.html\"><em>Communio et Progressio<\/em><\/a> in 1971, AMECEA bishops \u201corganized a meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, 1973, and made resolutions on how to implement the decree. 50 years down the line, it is time to rethink those strategies in our\u00a0context when digital technologies have dominated the communication landscape,\u201d Fr. Andrew Kaufa the AMECEA\u2019s coordinator for social communication said ahead of their travel.<\/p>\n<p>From this jubilee celebration Fr. Kaufa said, the AMECEA conferences \u201cwill raise awareness among the bishops\u00a0and national coordinators of communication on the new trends and pastoral approaches\u00a0required. At the same time, the fact that the communicators\u2019 conference will bring the bishops and national coordinators together, is in itself a synodal approach to doing Church communication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the cleric, since jubilee year is grounded the theme of the Church journeying together \u00a0and inspiring the faithful with hope as they face the challenges of life, \u201cnational communication coordinators are committed to ensuring that the Catholic media apostolates engage with the people in the reflections of the theme even when the media, especially the social media get saturated with negative news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The jubilee celebration is open not only to AMECEA communicators but to all. In this case, recalling the Golden Jubilee of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar &#8211; SECAM\u2019s Pan African Committee for Social Communications (CEPACS)\u00a0that was celebrated in 2023, Fr. Kaufa notes that the eight regions under SECAM are not on the same page when it comes to the integration of communication in pastoral planning as some regions have invested more than others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis jubilee is another opportunity for all the participants\u00a0from Africa to put their heads together once again, to explore new ways of doing church communication in Africa, and advise the African Church\u2019s leadership through CEPACS and\u00a0SECAM. This gathering taking place in Rome, might call for another gathering in the Africa context, be it at CEPACS or AMECEA level, to make a follow up on the jubilee and the communication conference that is taking place in Rome from 27<sup>th<\/sup> to 29<sup>th<\/sup> January,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA As the first event for the year-long Jubilee of Hope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea","category-amecea-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21606","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=21606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21607,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21606\/revisions\/21607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}