{"id":4884,"date":"2016-09-30T18:09:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=4884"},"modified":"2016-10-01T09:14:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T09:14:40","slug":"kenya-mentor-young-adults-to-appreciate-the-value-of-the-family-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/30\/kenya-mentor-young-adults-to-appreciate-the-value-of-the-family-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"KENYA: Mentor young adults to appreciate the value of the Family Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Rose Achiego, Waumini Communications KCCB<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Deputy General Secretary of Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), Vey Rev. Fr. Lucas Ong\u2019esa Manwa has called upon priests in all Dioceses to come up with solid vocational programs that would guide young adults in building strong and firm families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the Kenya Catholic Secretariat during a press conference ahead of African Regional Conference on Families, Fr. Ong\u2019esa affirmed that, the church upholds the exclusive union of a man and woman as central to marriage, and thus cannot accept the civil redefinition as the union of any two persons. He emphasized that the civil redefinitions make it important for the church to mould the young adults to understand the teachings of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Church should develop creative pastoral strategies and vocational programs for young people to avoid moral confusion, misunderstanding, misinformation and emptiness,\u201d said Fr. Ong\u2019esa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He encouraged everyone to uphold the dignity of the institution and sacrament of marriage and to recommit themselves to building up the human family. He further encouraged the society to encourage Christian marriages between man and woman because the family remains the basic unit of civilization. He noted that families have proven to be the unit where rights and needs of children are supported and protected. He encouraged the faithful to make their homes, families and parish communities\u2019 holy welcoming places for women and men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quoting the apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia \u2018the Joy of Love\u2019 of Pope Francis he reminded parish priests that \u201cthe main contribution to the pastoral care of families is offered by the parish, which is the family of families, where small communities, ecclesial movements and associations live in harmony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u223dEnd\u223d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rose Achiego, Waumini Communications KCCB The Deputy General Secretary of Kenya Conference of Catholic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4884","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\/4884","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4885,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions\/4885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}