By: Ginaba Lino The Inter-Regional Meeting of the Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA) has assured the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) of its prayers and solidarity as the regional Catholic body elects new office-bearers and appoints new staff during its 21st Plenary Assembly.
In a goodwill message read during the plenary assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, on behalf of the IMBISA President, Archbishop Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, the region prayed for divine wisdom to guide the election of new leaders who will steer AMECEA’s mission in the years ahead.
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The assembly is expected to conclude on Sunday with Holy Mass celebration presided over by the new AMECEA New Chairman (Votive Mass for AMECEA Family of God), announcement of new office Bearers, and communique to close the 21st Plenary assembly.
Kenya’s Bishop of Embu Diocese and Vice Chair of the Commission for Youth at the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), Peter Kemani, says young people in the AMECEA region are seeking answers, inclusion, involvement and want to participate as serious collaborators, including in the Church’s leadership structures.
Speaking at an AMECEA media briefing in Nairobi, monitored by Vatican News, Bishop Kimani said the 21st AMECEA Plenary currently happening in Kenya has come at the right time.
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The Church in the AMECEA region, Bishop Kimani said, should welcome this pastoral opportunity to dialogue with the young people not only during the plenary assembly but even afterwards.
Some of the youth representatives at the AMECEA Plenary Assembly An enlightened generation Bishop Kimani said the Church in the region had decided to engage with the youth because they are the present and the future.
Among other things, youth delegates at the AMECEA Plenary have asked for the approval to establish online Small Christian Communities, training as digital missionaries and formation courses that respond to the challenge of youth unemployment in a digital world.
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