Catholic theologians called on the Church in Africa to intensify its concern on corruption and mismanagement of public funds by some leaders on the continent.
The call was made at a Pan-African conference held at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, in Nairobi, last week, on the theme “The Church in Africa fifty years after States independence”, CISA reported.Over 200 theologians and scholars from 16 African countries observed that while Africa may have recorded some successful cases in the last fifty years of independence, it can hardly claim to have successfully carried out the promises it had made to its people at independence on illiteracy, disease and poverty irradication.
The theologians also called on the Church to intensify its pastoral mission among the faithful in areas such as self-reliance, the teaching of catechesis, affective relations between the Christians and people of other faiths, Muslims included.