Nairobi, 27 April, 2024 / 9:34 pm (ACI Africa).
Communicators in Kenyan Catholic Dioceses have been challenged to keep their Local Ordinaries visible on social media platforms as they juggle between busy schedules.
It emerged during the April 22-26 workshop that the Commission for Social Communications of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) organized for Catholic communicators in Kenya that not many Bishops in the East African country are on social media platforms. And a majority of those who are on these platforms have inactive accounts.
Responding to the concern, KCCB Vice Chairman, Archbishop Anthony Muheria acknowledged the challenges that Catholic Bishops face in their attempt to keep up with social media platforms.
“There is a lot of shift in the media especially with all these social media platforms. It is not always easy for some of our Bishops to keep up. The Bishops have a lot of other things they need to do and may not have the time to be present in the social media spaces,” Archbishop Muheria said in his Tuesday, April 23 keynote address at the workshop held at The Radix Hotel in Karen, Nairobi.
The Local Ordinary of Kenya’s Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri who is the immediate former Chairman of KCCB’s Commission for Social Communications said the challenges that Bishops face in adopting new media technologies is where Diocesan social communications officers come in.
