Zambia to Host AMECEA Secretaries General Meeting

Secretaries General from the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences Eastern Africa (AMECEA) will be holding a five-day regular meeting in Lusaka Zambia beginning Monday 22 August.

The secretaries from the 8 member countries of AMECEA will be hosted by the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB).

Speaking ahead of the meeting, Rev. Fr. Cleophas Lungu, Secretary General of the Zambian bishops said the meeting will review AMECEA programmes and look at how countries are implementing the recommendations made by the Bishops during the last AMECEA plenary in Malawi.

“The AMECEA Bishops in their last plenary meeting in Malawi made resolutions that, as a Region and respective conferences are to implement, so it is one of the matters that we shall be discussing, ” Fr. Lungu told Mwenya Mukuka, ZCCB Communications Officer.

Meanwhile, the Secretary-General of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SCBC), Fr Jacob Odwa Paul has told Catholic Radio Network (CRN) that he will be attending the meeting. The priest who scheduled to fly out of the South Sudanese capital Juba on Sunday  shared on some of the issues that will be discussed at the Lusaka meeting.

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