Nairobi, 15 May, 2022 / 10:20 am (ACI Africa).
There is need for responsible parenthood in Africa, the Director of the Catholic Biblical Centre for Africa and Madagascar (BICAM) has said, bemoaning the fact that some parents “have abandoned their responsibilities”.
In an interview with ACI Africa on the sidelines of the Congress on family as domestic church held in Nairobi, Fr. Albert Ngengi Mundele emphasized the need for families to be domestic churches, adding that the concept has Biblical foundations.
“It seems that the parents in the family have abandoned their responsibilities. The parents have given up their responsibility of teaching the children how to pray, to teach them how they should conduct themselves properly,” the Director of BICAM, an entity of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) said.
In the Wednesday, May 11 interview, Fr. Mundele further said, “The challenge we are living today is that when the parents release their children to the Parishes, they (children) do not have basic elements in spirituality.”
“We have concentrated more on the Parishes, the Small Christian Communities, and somehow neglected the domestic church, which is the family,” he said.