From November 21 to 23, 2025, communication managers from Episcopal Conferences and ecclesial organizations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean gathered at the CELAM Meeting House to celebrate the II Meeting of the Ecclesial Communication Network of Latin America and the Caribbean (RECLAC). In this space for discernment, listening, and continental coordination, CEAMA actively participated through Fernando Rueda, Communications Coordinator, who presented the best practice entitled “Synodal Communication with an Amazonian Face.”
The meeting was held under the fundamental question: How can we communicate today in a synodal way, from our Latin American identity, in dialogue with the Magisterium and the Jubilee of Hope? In this context, CEAMA’s experience was shared as a testimony of how communication can become not only a technical service, but a true pastoral ministry that unites, mobilizes, sensitizes, and transforms.
CEAMA’s participation was integrated into the dynamic of deep listening that set the tone for the meeting. The Amazonian experience—woven together by indigenous peoples, riverside communities, missionary vocations, and territories that are wounded but full of hope—contributed a unique tone: communication as an act of listening, memory, protection, and prophetic proclamation.
During his presentation, Fernando Rueda shared CEAMA’s journey at the Meeting of Bishops of the Amazon held in August 2025, highlighting a communication proposal based on three verbs: listen, narrate, and care. He explained how synodal communication in the Amazon is based on community processes, territorial symbols, networking, and a narrative that emerges from the peoples themselves and not only from organizations.
The testimony showed that communicating in the Amazon means walking to its rhythms, respecting its silences, embracing its spirituality, and recognizing the transformative power of its stories. Thus, CEAMA shared the fruits of its recent experience: multilingual content, coordination with REPAM, CLAR, Caritas, CELAM, and episcopal conferences; accompaniment of bishops in creating digital messages; and continental presence in networks, portals, and news agencies.
Participants in the RECLAC meeting recognized this good practice as an inspiring model, adaptable to other ecclesial realities, where communication is understood as missionary dynamism and as a bridge that unites territories, cultures, and communities.
Fernando Rueda also encouraged the communicators present to strengthen a “network of networks” that breathes synodality, to “let the territories speak with their signs,” and to remember that in Latin America and the Caribbean, communication has deep community, popular, and spiritual roots.
The meeting concluded with a call to continue walking together in the construction of pastoral communication that not only informs, but also inspires, summons, and liberates; that makes the invisible visible and defends life where it is threatened. CEAMA renewed its commitment to continue contributing from the Amazon a communication that springs from the territory, is nourished by the Gospel, and is projected as hope for the whole Church.
With gratitude and a synodal spirit, CEAMA celebrates the richness of this continental space and reaffirms its willingness to continue weaving, together with RECLAC and CELAM, communication that is a bridge, a home, and a path for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.