CONFRONTING THE TYRANNY OF FALSEHOOD: THE PROSPECTS OF THE MEDIA AND MEANS OF COMMUNICATION AND THE CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF EVANGELIZATION
The reality of Falsehood and its ease of spread, especially within the power and coverage of the Media and Means of Social Communication is one that is both inimical and detrimental to the Gospel Message and the Church’s Mission of Evangelization. Since the Gospel of Christ is the Truth of Faith about God’s Love Story with humanity, and the Mission of the Church is to be the substantive instrument of the Spread of this Message, every form of Falsehood distracts from this Truth and attempts to cause it harm. The question remains how the Church can suitably respond to the Tyranny of Falsehood with the prospects of the Media and the Means of Social Communication; and how the Church in Nigeria can fruitfully benefit from this proactive response within the Nigerian Ecclesiastical Context greatly battered by violence, terrorist attacks, calumny, gruesome killings, internal and external divisions, etc.
Keywords: challenges, communication, confronting, contemporary, evangelization, falsehood, means, media, prospects, tyranny