Salesians Equip Youths in Multiple African Countries with Mobile Journalism Skills to Participate in Evangelization

In the November 5 report, Agenzia Fides notes that there are numerous French-speaking Salesians in the Province of Central Africa, who are active as missionaries in digital media.

In the English-speaking African countries, SDB members have already facilitated the training of digital media professionals in Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Madagascar.

In his note to Agenzia Fides, Fr. Makuła stressed that Salesians and the SDB Province of Central Africa in particular “will have no future without digital technology.”

He explained that the Church and the Salesian family are called to adopt an integrated approach to social media and urged everyone to do their utmost to create new digital missionaries. 

The multi-year Synod on Synodality that concluded on October 27 called for for the formation of “digital missionaries.” The assembly’s synthesis report following the October 2023 session provided guidelines for engagement with the digital space, which “can surely boost the building of a more just and fraternal world.”

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On digital missionaries, the October 2023 synthesis report says, “We cannot evangelize digital culture without first understanding it. Young people, and among them, seminarians, young priests, and young consecrated men and women, who often have profound and direct experience of it, are best suited to carry out the Church's mission in the digital environment, as well as to accompany the rest of the community, including pastors, in becoming more familiar with its dynamics.”

Sabrina Amboka contributed to the writing of this story.

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