Abidjan, 28 August, 2019 / 1:11 am (ACI Africa).
Catholic journalists in Africa have been urged to desist from using media to propagate negative information that seems to overshadow the many positive events on the continent.
“African stories must be told positively through the use of all means of Communication,” Ivorian Bishop Raymond Ahoua has been quoted as saying.
“Many good and positive initiatives by the Church and other Religious Institutions go unreported,” the Bishop lamented.
He was addressing close to 50 journalists who had paid him a courtesy call at his residence in the south-eastern town of Ivory Coast, Grand-Bassam, after attending a refresher course in the country’s capital, Abidjan.
The week-long refresher programme, which was graced by the Vatican Prefect of the Dicastery for Social Communication, Dr. Paolo Ruffini, brought together Catholic Journalists from Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Mali, and Senegal.
