Due to its impact on young Catholics in Africa, fundamentalism will be a topic that bishops from East Africa prioritize in their talks with other delegates during the synod's intervention sessions. More than 300 delegates, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, sisters and laypeople are expected to attend the Oct. 3-28 Synod of Bishops, which will meet at the Vatican to discuss "young people, faith and vocational discernment." Known by its acronym AMECEA, the group includes the bishops' conferences of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Djibouti and Somalia. The bishops considered these and other topics after they had deliberated extensively on the synod's "instrumentum laboris" ("working document"), Father Chimombo said. The AMECEA meeting took place with financial support from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Source: Ethiopian News September 24, 2018 16:18 UTC