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Africa’s Communications Committee Jubilee Host Hopes Event Will Be “a resounding success”

The President of the Pan African Episcopal Committee for Social Communications (CEPACS), Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo with Catholic journalists in Africa during a training on “Effective and Efficient Reporting Migrants and Refugees” that the African region of the World Catholic Association for Communication, SIGNIS Africa, organized in Uganda. Credit: Fr. Dieu-Donne Kofi Davor/SIGNIS Africa

By ACI Africa Staff

Jos, 27 August, 2023 / 9:45 pm (ACI Africa).

The host of the planned Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Pan African Episcopal Committee for Social Communications (CEPACS) is optimistic that the four-day event scheduled to take place in November in Nigeria’s Lagos Archdiocese “shall be” a success.

In a statement shared with ACI Africa, which the Nigeria Catholic Network (NCN) also published, Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins of Lagos Archdiocese expresses satisfaction that his Metropolitan was selected to host the continental event planned for November 18-21.

“By the grace of God, with the quality of personalities serving on the Local Organizing Committee (LOC), and with the support of the entire people of God in the Archdiocese, I believe that the event shall be a resounding success,” Archbishop Adewale says. 

The Nigerian Catholic Archbishop adds, “We are happy that CEPACS has chosen Lagos as the venue for their 50th-anniversary celebration.”

In the statement that the President of CEPACS, Bishop Emmanuel Badejo, shared with ACI Africa on August 14, expected dignitaries to the celebrations are highlighted, including Catholic Bishops at the helm of the eight regional Conferences that constitute the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM).

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The regional Conferences include the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC), the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA), the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa Region (ACERAC), and the Regional Episcopal Conferences of West Africa (RECOWA/CERAO).

Other regional Bishops’ Conferences are the Assembly of the Catholic Hierarchy of Egypt (AHCE), the Regional Episcopal Conferences of North Africa (CERNA), Madagascar and Episcopal Conferences of Indian Ocean (CEDOI), and the Inter-Regional Meeting of the Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA).

Other dignitaries expected to participate in the November 18-21 Golden Jubilee celebrations include Standing Committee members who represent the anglophone, francophone and lusophone regions of the continental symposium of Catholic Bishops in Africa; and heads and officers of various Catholic Communication entities in Africa, among others.

SECAM founded CEPACS in 1973 and gave it “the mandate of promoting the use of modern means of mass communications as tools of evangelization in the African Church,” Bishop Badejo says in his statement. 

The Local Ordinary of Nigeria’s Oyo Diocese, who has been the President of CEPACS since his appointment in 2015 further says that he has constituted the LOC in Lagos, “comprising astute Communications experts, including Priests, lay faithful and other Church functionaries to plan for the event.”

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Members of the LOC have been tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that participants in the Golden Jubilee celebrations “enjoy an unforgettable experience” that is to be at the “ultra-modern facilities of Lumen Christi Catholic TV, Retreat and Media Centre, Lekki Lagos.

On their part, members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) have also welcomed the move to host the Golden Jubilee that is to be graced by Church officials from the Vatican.

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