Impact of the Radio and Television in Pentecostal Movements on the Catholic Youth
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2005-02
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
The permanent bureau of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and
Madagascar meeting in Accra Ghana in 1993, issued a document
New Christian
Movements in Africa and Madagascar'
in which it observed that contemporary Africa is
witnessing an explosion of new religious movements. Mainline Churches such as the
Catholic Church have been greatly affected, losing substantial numbers of the youth to
these new groups. The new movements are promising quick happiness, contentment and
purpose in life to the hundreds of thousands of young people they are attracting into their
ranks. This constitutes an urgent pastoral challenge to the Catholic Church.
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Radio, Television, Pentecostal, Movement, Youth, Catholic