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Lome (Agenzia Fides) - “Communications should be an essential dimension in all the activity of the Church and evangelication through the media should be a priority for the Church, Family of God, in Togo,” affirmed Archbishop Denis Amuzu-Dzakpah of Lome, head of the Communications Department of the Togo Bishops' Conference, in opening the sessions of the Extraordinary General Assembly of the National Catholic Commission for Social Communications.
A statement sent to Agenzia Fides said that he Assembly took place May 26-30 at the Leo XIII Center, 15 kilometers outside Lome, the capital of Togo. The event was attended by some 20 invitees from 7 diocese in Togo, as well as an expert in strategic planning from the Catholic Media Council (CAMECO), of Aquisgrana, all of whom discussed the Pastoral Plan for Communications for the Church in Togo.
Archbishop Amuzu-Dzakpah, in quoting the seminar organized in March in Rome by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications for all Bishops in charge of communications, he affirmed that “the good communicator should be a mediator, that is, a witness, a teacher, an artist, a 'midwife,' a prophet, and a pilgrim that walks with Jesus.”
The Assembly also featured a talk by Michel Philppart, expert in communications and Chair of African Affairs at CAMECO, who used a document that had been published during the preparatory meetings. The participants also reviewed the priorities of the National Catholic Commission for Social Communications, defining the global objective and the results that the Commission is aiming for. At the close of the Assembly, the participants approved the Strategic Pastoral Plan for Communications in the Church in Togo.
The global objective of the Pastoral Plan was defined as: “Media and Catholic communicators, witnesses and promoters of paths of reconciliation, justice, and peace for the Church of God in Togo and spokesmen for those who have no voice.” (LM) (Agenzia Fides 3/6/2009)
