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Africa-Press – Tanzania. <\/strong><\/span>THE Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC) has organised a environment conference that will bring together 120 Catholic bishops from eight countries in Africa.<\/p>\n

TEC Secretary General, Father Dr Charles Kitima, told journalists at Kawekamo pilgrimage centre that the 10-day conference will be held in Mwanza in July, next year.<\/p>\n

He mentined countries that will participate in the conference as Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Djibouti.<\/p>\n

Dr Kitima said the conference will reflect on environmental stewardship and caring for the world, noting that all 34 bishops from the dioceses of Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar will participate.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, he said they have decided to encourage afforestation and other means of environmental protection with the aim of ensuring that the Earth becomes a safe place to live.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom this this November, every family should think of planting trees surrounding their homes, every ward should have forests as well as village to have village forests,\u201d Dr Kitima said.<\/p>\n

He said they are inviting the government to join hands with religious leaders in tree planting campaign.<\/p>\n

Dr Kitima said whenever there is a parish they will send a forestry expert to advise how to plant trees in a particular area considering climate of the area.<\/p>\n

“Environmental protection education will be provided and the communities will be educated on tree planting. We have reached this stage due to severe weather conditions,” said Dr Kitima.<\/p>\n

He said the tree planting exercise is expected to motivate people to plant trees.<\/p>\n

Dr Kitima asked the communities to develop a culture of planting trees at their surroundings.<\/p>\n

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