Addis Ababa, 07 March, 2023 / 11:48 am (ACI Africa).
African values are relevant to the Synodal process in the ongoing preparations for the Synod on Synodality and can bring lessons to the people of God across the globe with “great impact”, a Catholic Bishop in Ethiopia has said.
In his homily on the final working day of the March 1-6 Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Bishop Musie Ghebreghiorghis highlighted the diverse values among the people of God in Africa.
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“We speak different languages; we have different cultural backgrounds; we have different liturgies and yet we feel we are all members of the one family of God here in Africa,” Bishop Ghebreghiorghis said during the March 4 Eucharistic celebration at the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral of Addis Ababa Archdiocese.
The member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (O.F.M. Cap.) said that the “African society is a vibrant society with rich cultural values that need to be carefully preserved” and that African values “need our full attention”.