Rural-Urban Migration in Kenya As A Challenge to Social Ministers
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1998-04
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
After many centuries during which the church has
remained anchored close to the rural world, the cities are
increasingly becoming its concern. The 1990 Encyclical
letter by John Paul II redemptoris Mission (RMO 37b)
indicates among the "New worlds and new social phenomena"'
which are the parameters of the church's mission ad gentes,
urbanization and the massive growth of cities. EM suggests
that these phenomena change the image of the mission which
should now concentrate on the big cities, not only for
quantiatative factors (demographic explosion and
accumulation), but because of the impact that the city has
on the wider population. In fact EM speaks of new customs
and styles of living which arise together with new forms of
culture and communication. The stress is on culture, or
rather, on the cultural change which is taking place in the
cities, which are "centres where a new humanity, so to
speak, is emergeing, and where new models of development
are taking shape." The emphasis on the cultural change is also mentioned in RM 37c speaking about the new areopagus
of the modern world of communications which is unifying.
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Migration, Social Ministers, Rural-Urban, Urban Areas, Unemployment in Kenya, solution to Rural - Urban Migration