CREC in South Africa: Raising the bar for Church Communicators
Catholic communicators from the nine southern African countries represented by the Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops in Southern Africa (IMBISA) were put through their paces during an intensive three-day IMBISA Media and Communications Workshop held in Benoni, South Africa. Ricardo da Silva, a South African Jesuit, was one of the members of the training team. He reports on the experience of the first-of-its-kind workshop in the IMBISA region. The Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops in Southern Africa (IMBISA) hosted a Media and Communications workshop from 5-7 November 2018 at the Lumko Centre in Benoni, South Africa. The workshop gathered 33 participants chosen from the nine member...
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CREC at Imbisa: Impressions of growth
“Why are you here?” was the question posed at the start of the three-day IMBISA communications-training workshop held at The Lumko Centre in Benoni, Johannesburg in early November 2018. The Audience, of both clergy and laity
CREC Social Media workshop – Cochabamba, Bolivia
(6-9 June 2019) Why Bolivia? 1. Because the Bolivian Bishops Conference invited CREC to present the workshop as part of their own National Seminar entitled: “Communication and Journalism in the Era of Social Media”. 2.
Three-year framework agreement signed between UCAO / UUA and CREC International
A three-year framework agreement was signed this Friday, March 15, 2019 in Abidjan between the Catholic University of West Africa / University Unit in Abidjan – Ivory Coast (UCAO / UUA) and the Center for
CREC in Paraguay
Look for Paraguay on the map and you’ll find it squeezed between Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. It may not be the first stop on the average tourist itinerary, but it is a fast-growing and vibrant
CREC in Guatemala: Communication at the service of Central America.
When Pope St John Paul II visited Guatemala in 2002, he canonized the first saint of Central America, a 17th century friar known as Hermano Pedro, who used to walk the streets, ringing a bell
Training in Papua New Guinea
A workshop of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Papua New Guinea and Salomon Islands have been organized at Emmaus Conference Center in the capital Port Moresby, and was dedicated to the topic of communication, with
CREC in Namibia 2016
Don’t be surprised if the term South West Africa sounds more familiar to you than Namibia. It just means you were born before 1990 when the country gained independence and changed its name. As a
Offering a future to unemployed people
Since 2007, CREC is not conducting sessions in its centre of Ecully (Lyon, France) but its teams of trainers are present in different parts of the world (this November, a session will take place in
Workshop in Tanzania: A Mountain of Trust
It rains a lot on Mount Kilimanjaro in June. And it rains hard. Most of the time you can’t see the mountain because its snow-capped summit is so high it rises above the cloud line
Truth and Lies in Ukraine
June 15, 2015 – Two years ago, when I told people I was going to Ukraine, hardly anyone knew where it was. Very few knew that it is the second largest country in Europe (as
Crisis management for seminarians
Since 2007, the seminarians of two Major Seminaries in Burkina Faso are trained in communications. Last April, a group of 51 future priests, at St John the Baptist seminary, in Ouagadougou, followed an intensive session
Papua New Guinea – The Ultimate Periphery
Before you continue reading this article I suggest you check a map of the world, or go to Google, to make sure you really know where Papua New Guinea is. Yes, that’s it: that green
