Promote Family Life, says Bishop Mugambi

“The Catholic Church in Kenya continues to oppose measures that do not promote family life by either seeking to redefine or erode the meaning of marriage or the family.”
 
Bishop Salesius Mugambi made these comments when he spoke during the launch of the new National Family Life Policy in Mombasa, Kenya on 2 September, 2015. The Bishop of Meru Diocese and Chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (KCCB) National Family Life Programme advised Catholic ecclesial movements and people of goodwill not to succumb to the pressures of a culture that undermines the family but strive to build a culture that honours and promotes family life.
 
Bishop Mugambi trusts that the new national family life policy will stimulate diocesan family life coordinators and all stakeholders to journey with families and to evangelize them into becoming sanctuaries of love and life.
 
The Bishop-chair urged families to be at the forefront of ensuring that laws and institutions of the state support and defend the rights and duties of the family by backing-up these with sound legislation and family policies.
 
“The Family is an image of the Holy Trinity that signifies the love of God for humanity. As a visible sign of this love, the family becomes the venue per excellence for the transmission of life, faith and training in values and virtues,” Bishop Mugambi emphasised.  
 
The new National Family Life Policy of KCCB was necessitated by the need to offer clear guidance and guidelines to Kenyan dioceses on the management of the family apostolate.   The Policy whose vision is “Witnessing Christian family life” was produced under the leadership of the Family Life National Coordinator, Theresa Abuya.

(By Rose Achiego)

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