Catholic Journalists in Africa Call for More Reporting Opportunities on the Environment

They also appealed to the international community to support the initiatives that public institutions and civil society organizations have put in place to protect the environment including awareness campaigns for reforestation.

In their statement following the seminar that ended on November 11, the Catholic Journalists also called on the general media fraternity to remember their mission to “inform, train, and entertain” in their participation in ecological education.

They invited their peers, inclusing those in the secular space to “initiate and implement projects likely to contribute to the protection of the environment and the preservation of the earth.”

In their recommendation, the Catholic journalists also want media houses to investigate, produce, and disseminate media content on ecological crisis situations which, they say, by extension, “cause, fuel, and aggravate other related crises including migratory, economic, and health crises, with their share of consequences on the ecosystem.”

Environmental journalists and communicators from Ghana, Nigeria, Oman, Brazil, Germany, Togo, and Uganda attended the UCAP seminar that was organized under the theme “Contribution of journalists and media practitioners for an integral Ecology according to Pope Francis' encyclical ‘Laudato Si’.”

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The main objective of the seminar that started on November 5 was to build the capacity of media professionals in solving environmental problems that affect the African continent.

Silas Mwale Isenjia is a Kenyan journalist with a great zeal and interest for Catholic Church related communication. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics, Media and Communication from Moi University in Kenya. Silas has vast experience in the Media production industry. He currently works as a Journalist for ACI Africa.