By Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA<\/p>\n
The new President of the Confederation of the Conferences of Major Superiors of Africa and Madagascar (COMSAM\/ COSMAM), Sr. Rita Yamba, has encouraged religious congregations across the continent to join the confederation for more authentic, credible, and effective evangelization in society.<\/p>\n
In an Interview with AMECEA Online<\/em>, Sr. Yamba, the superior delegate of the Daughters of St. Paul in Kinshasa for the delegation of Congo and Ivory Coast, who was elected recently as COMSAM president after the May symposium and annual General Assembly of the confederation in Johannesburg, South Africa, stressed the significance of collaboration.<\/p>\n \u201cToday, if you work alone, you do not have much impact on society. As religious, we all have apostolates according to our Charisms, but by uniting our strengths, we can journey together towards a better world,\u201d She shared.<\/p>\n The nun, who also serves as the vice president of the Conference of Major Superiors in Congo, emphasized that COMSAM has created four commissions: Formation, Communication, Justice and Peace, and Finance and Projects to enhance the work of the confederation in various countries in Africa.<\/p>\n According to her, COMSAM organizes leadership trainings, empowerment programs, ongoing formation, and initiatives promoting justice, peace, and safeguarding at the continental level to the Church\u2019s collective voice.<\/p>\n \u201cBy working together across countries, we can overcome challenges of conflict, poverty, and misunderstanding,\u201d Sr. Yamba pointed out, adding that the Church\u2019s call to live synodality is at the heart of the confederation\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n She encouraged more participation from English-speaking countries and stressed that belonging to COMSAM strengthens congregations beyond what they can achieve as national associations.<\/p>\n COMSAM recently marked its sixth plenary, reaffirming its role as a platform for promoting unity, communion, and collaborative service to transform society through the Church\u2019s mission in Africa and Madagascar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA The new President of the Confederation of the Conferences…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news","category-comsam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22927","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=22927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23520,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22927\/revisions\/23520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}