2024-01-12 02:00:00
“The doctrine of the Church on Christian marriage and sexuality remains unchanged,” highlighted yesterday the Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) in a statement issued in Accra, the capital of Ghana. “For this reason, we, the African bishops, consider it inappropriate to bless homosexual unions or same-sex couples in Africa because, in our context, this would cause confusion and be in direct contradiction with the cultural ethos of African communities,” the document adds. . The Vatican initiative met with especially strong opposition in Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Ivory Coast, bishops and archbishops warned that the blessing of same-sex couples could generate “confusion” and “scandal.” Meanwhile in Nigeria, the Episcopal Conference pointed out in December that this blessing “would go against the law of God, the teachings of the Church, the laws [del país] and the cultural sensitivities” of the population. (AFP)
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