Catholic communications officers from Southern Africa have been called to share stories and “experiences of the risen Lord in Southern Africa.”
Addressing participants during the opening Mass of a communications workshop underway at Lumko Retreat and Conference Centre in Benoni, the Liaison Bishop for Communications of the Inter-Regional Meeting of the Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA) said, “We are the ones called to share through media, the journey of faith of the Church in our countries. We are called to share our stories.”
“Our experience of the Risen Lord in Southern Africa because as Pope Benedict wrote: “Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction,” said Bishop José Luis Gerardo Ponce de León during the Tuesday, August 29 Mass.
