“Strive to practice unifying journalism”: Nigerian Archbishop to Catholic Communicators

“We need directors with the passion for communicating effectively and who can correctly engage with media tools,” Bishop Chidi said, and explained, “While you must project your Bishops and the Church's message, it is also imperative that you go to the villages and report on the struggles and heroic activities of poor people.”

Ordinary and poor people, the Nigerian Bishop said, “must be given space on the front pages of your newspapers.”

“I challenge the country's Catholic Directors for social communications to show more commitment and passion in their task as Church communicators and to ensure that they seek every means available to develop themselves in order to be more efficient in their duty,” Bishop Chidi told the participants in the three-day workshop.

Organized under the theme, “Empowering Directors for an Integrated and Effective Catholic Media Apostolate in Nigeria,” the workshop that brought together Diocesan and Religious Catholic Directors for Social Communications from across the West African country aimed to foster integrated and effective Catholic media in Nigeria.

At the workshop, the Assistant Director of Communications of Uyo Diocese, Fr. Paulinus Andiyene, guided participants through the setting up of a basic low budget studio for audio and video recording and editing.

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Fr. Andiyene also explained the distinctions between various types of recording equipment including microphones and their respective use.

The participants in the workshop acknowledged with appreciation the immediate former National Director of Communications in Nigeria, Fr. Chris Anyanwu, for his many years of service to the Catholic Church at the Bishops’ conference.