Nairobi, 20 August, 2019 / 12:59 am (ACI Africa).
Contemporary means of communication have taken the lead in fighting values of the Gospel across the globe, the Apostolic Nuncio in Kenya and South Sudan, Archbishop Bert van Megen, has decried and encouraged Catholic journalists in Africa to embrace positive reporting.
“There are so many countries that are combating Christianity,” the Papal representative who was presiding over the official launch of the Association for Catholic Information in Africa (ACI Africa) last Saturday in Nairobi observed and added, “One of the ways of fighting Christianity and the gospel is first and foremost through communication.”
He expressed concern about the extent to which anti-Christian forces have taken control of communication channels in the Western world, much to the detriment of Christianity.
“Much of the communication today is taken by forces that work against the Church and God himself, especially the Western world is very much taken by agnostic if not atheist doctrines, which try to expel God from the public sphere in normal communication channels,” the Dutch Prelate decried in his homily.
Basing his reflection on the scriptural readings of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Papal Nuncio made particular reference to “a woman with 12 stars on her head” and noted that while this sacred image inspired the flag of the European Union (EU), many EU member countries have turned their back on this Christian inspiration.
“The EU of today is not standing for Christian values as such,” he said and explained, “Think of those stars, here they mean something good – the Virgin Mary, the 12 Apostles but of the large number of important nations on this earth who have stars on their banners, very few of them really live the Christian values; some of them combat Christianity. Think of Communist China and the Soviet Union.”
