Blantyre, 21 June, 2024 / 3:31 pm (ACI Africa).
The leadership of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) has announced a national youth conference aimed at preparing youths in the Southeast African nation into “responsible leaders”.
In a Thursday, June 20 message, ECM’s National Youth Chaplain announces the conference that has been scheduled for August 14-18 in the country’s Catholic Archdiocese of Blantyre.
“The conference is being organized through the ECM Pastoral Office with the aim of drilling the youth in areas of church teachings and doctrines, as well as social teachings so as to help the youth be responsible leaders in the Church,” Fr. Francis Damaseke says.
Fr Damaseke adds, “For a long time, the Church and state, we've been saying, the youths are the leaders of tomorrow, but it seems that we haven't prepared them enough to embrace that leadership.”
“As the Church we'd like to take that part, to be training them,” he adds.