By Godwin Utuedoye,
Patrick Osu, National President of Catholic Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria CAMPAN, on Thursday, September 26, 2019 called on the Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria CBCN, to appoint priests with requisite communication qualification and have passion, interest and love for communication to head Social Communications directorate in their various arch/dioceses in order to promote and expand the propagation of the gospel through the new media.
From left, Patrick Osu,National President CAMPAN, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama, Apostolic Administrator of Jos & Coadjutor Archbishop of Abuja & Suleiman of Kano Diocese
In his opening address during the third national convention holding in Jos Plateau State, with the theme, “The New Media and Evangelization In Nigeria: A Reflection, Mr. Osu urged all Catholics in the media profession to use their pen vocation to propagate and promote the Catholic faith and to imbibed in self discipline, honesty and factual in their reportage so that through their work, peace and unity will reign Nigeria.
He further appealed to the bishop’s frequently sponsor priests who are handlers of communication in their dioceses on further studies either locally or internationally in order to broaden their horizon in communication and enhance their creativity especially in propagating the faith of the church to the whole world.
Mr. Osu maintained that Media work is an expensive enterprise and as such, it needs proper and adequate funding in order to sustain and actualized the purpose of establishing the social communication commission as obsolete and moribund gadgets can also hinders the aim establishing the department in the church.
He added that it is a duty for the different authorities, bodies and association in the church to support the communication apostolate so that the work of the evangelization can be seen everywhere and used also as a tool to engaged the large proportion of the youths who are so engrossed in the internet with different kinds of immoral activities.
The annual convention of CAMPAN which holds in Jos attracted Catholic media practitioners from all over Nigeria including Catholic priests from different dioceses in Nigeria.
The program will last till Saturday, September 28, 2019.