Priest: Church's next challenge is evangelization in Nairobi slums

Published: 2007-01-23

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) -- The church's next challenge is to evangelize the rapidly increasing number of slum dwellers, said a priest serving among Nairobi's Korogocho slums. But the church has not placed evangelization in the slums as a priority, said Comboni Father Daniel Moschetti during a seminar called "Slums in Africa: A Challenge to Evangelization," which was part of the Jan. 16-19 second World Forum on Theology and Liberation held outside Nairobi. More than 300 delegates from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Great Britain and the United States attended the seminar. Theologians, researchers and Christian grass-roots organizations from around the world attended the theology and liberation forum on "Spirituality for Another Possible World." The forum was hosted by the Carmelite Fathers Center in Langata, a suburb of Nairobi, and organized by Tangaza College, an affiliate of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. Father Moschetti and two other Comboni priests are currently the only Catholic missionaries serving the church in Nairobi's slums.

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