{"id":233948,"date":"2026-06-19T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/amecea-upcoming-webinar-to-focus-on-church-leadership-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:02:00","slug":"amecea-upcoming-webinar-to-focus-on-church-leadership-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/amecea-upcoming-webinar-to-focus-on-church-leadership-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"AMECEA: Upcoming Webinar to Focus on Church Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/amecea-upcoming-webinar-to-focus-on-church-leadership-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/\">AMECEA: Upcoming Webinar to Focus on Church Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/amecea-upcoming-webinar-to-focus-on-church-leadership-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/amecea-upcoming-webinar-to-focus-on-church-leadership-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-19 11:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"communications.amecea.org\">communications.amecea.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) will host a formation webinar on June 23 for bishops, religious superiors, and senior ecclesial leaders about navigating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Church.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The webinar, titled \u201cMagnifica Humanitas: Leading the Church in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,\u201d draws inspiration from Pope Leo XIV\u2019s encyclical related to safeguarding humanity amid AI advances.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The session, moderated by Fr. Andrew Kaufa, aims to provide theological and pastoral clarity on AI, framing it as an opportunity rather than a threat.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Topics of discussion will include practical understanding of AI, critical analysis of transhumanism, theological reflection on human dignity and machine intelligence, and the Holy Father\u2019s calls for AI policy frameworks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The webinar will feature Bishop Emmanuel Badejo of Oyo Diocese in Nigeria as the keynote speaker, along with a panel of scholars and Church communicators.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The session will run from 4:00\u20136:00 p.m. EAT \/ 3:00\u20135:00 p.m. CAT, accessible via Zoom.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMECEA: Upcoming Webinar to Focus on Church Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelligence https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/amecea-upcoming-webinar-to-focus-on-church-leadership-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-233948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}