Catholic journalists from across the continent are expected to congregate in Cape Town, South Africa from the 9th to the 13th September, 2018, for the Congress of the Union Catholique Africain de la Presse (UCAP), that is the African Catholic Union of the Press.

The conference, to be held in collaboration with the Southern Africa Catholic Bishops’ Conference; SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication and the Pan-African Episcopal Committee of Social Communications (CEPACS), will bring together Catholic Journalists working for both the church and secular media at the Schoenstatt Retreat and Conference Centre, in Cape Town.

The theme for the conference is ‘Using the Media for Promotion of Integral Human Development in Africa.’

The theme will be subdivided into four sub themes:

• Journalism for truth and reconciliation in the Church and of service to people;
• Promoting Peace, Truth and Reconciliation in Africa in a Digital Age;
• Making the Church more relevant to the Youth in the Church in Africa and
• Promoting the Social teachings of the Church through the Media in Africa.

A number of top journalists and clergy involved in communication in their respective Episcopal Conferences, countries and dioceses will attend this auspicious function.

The Congress goes to Cape Town at a time Catholics in Southern Africa are celebrating 200 years of the establishment of the Catholic Church in the region.

In recent years, UCAP Congresses have been held in Bamako-Mali; Mombasa-Kenya and Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso.

Signed:

George Sunguh

President

Union of the Catholic African Press (UCAP)