Guwahati: A North-East India regional media consultation on the need to network within the Church communicators was held at North East Diocesan Social Service Society (NEDSSS) Guwahati from July 20 to 22.
Fr. (Dr) Cyril Victor Joseph from Conference of Catholic Bishops in India (CCBI) Apostolate, Bangalore and Fr. (Dr) Babu Joseph, Satprkasahan Sanchar Kendra, Indore animated the sessions.
Fr. Cyril presented on ‘CCBI Media Apostolate’. He spoke about its foundation, aims, and objectives. He focused on the future plan of the apostolate and encouraged the participants to give their best for the success of this apostolate. He stressed making the whole nation as one family through media, sharing views and News from each region. He also spoke about an initiative taken by CCBI in the process of creating an application called Catholink App, which would be a useful platform for all catholic members across the country.
Fr. Babu spoke about the contemporary challenges of media. He focussed on building social capital and social networking. Building a social security network and having media consultancy in North-East India is the need of the hour. He also spoke about crisis management in the field of legal as well as media platforms.
Most. Rev. John Moolachira, the Archbishop of Guwahati had an interactive session with the participants. “Media is a gift of God, hence promote the good use of media for pastoral ministry,” he said. He also urged giving more focus to the print media.
The session on ‘Strategies to an active and effective media apostolate’ by Fr. Cyril focused on the need of having networking for the Church communicators and the importance of building good leadership. He encouraged the need of sharing resources through media platforms in order to improve content.
