News: The Christian Family Community (CFC) trains journalists on marriage and family
The Christian Family Community (CFC) recently organized training for journalists in Kinshasa on family and marriage. For three days, the trainers, mainly religious, addressed various subjects linked to the Catholic Church’s vision of societal changes such as the notion of gender, homosexuality and marriage.
The objective of this training was to enable the Congolese media to raise awareness on the conservation of Christian and African values in matters of marriage and family. According to the Shepherd of the CFC, Léon Botolo, it is essential to have journalists specialized in family issues to popularize the Christian and African conception of marriage on a large scale.
During the training, Father-Professor Mathieu Musua, specialist in philosophy and professor emeritus at the Catholic University of Congo (UCC), highlighted the natural character of marriage. According to him, marriage is not only a natural right, but also a positive right decreed by the State. He has also criticized Western views of marriage and family, particularly regarding the normalization of homosexual practices.
Furthermore, globalization has played an important role in the propagation of these Western conceptions through the media. This is why it is necessary to involve press professionals in the dissemination of Christian and African values of marriage and the family.
Faced with these societal changes, Monsignor Edouard Isango, auxiliary bishop of Kinshasa, called for an attitude of mercy towards homosexuals, polygamists, members of the LGBT community, concubines and gender theorists, in the hope that they can convert.
The Christian family community, created in 1984, is dedicated to the defense and promotion of family values, highlighting marriage as a source of happiness rather than unhappiness. This training of journalists constitutes an important step in the CFC’s mission to propagate these values within the Congolese community.
In conclusion, it is essential to train journalists in the Catholic Church’s vision of family and marriage in order to preserve Christian and African values in a constantly evolving society. The media play a key role in the dissemination of these conceptions, which requires the involvement of press professionals in promoting these values. The training organized by the CFC is a step forward in this direction and will increase awareness among the Congolese population of the importance of marriage and family in society.