When asked about the potential inclusion of so-called "LGBT" language in the synod's final document, the bishop reiterated that point.
"I wouldn't vote for any article that has LGBT." Fuanya said, explained that "99.9 percent" of the young people in his diocese would "stand at my door and say, 'What's this?'"
"With matters of doctrine that the church teaches, it is not like in this synod we are trying to invent new teaching … Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life … we cannot be taking positions that contradict the Gospels," he added.
On that point, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, told the press conference: "Quite honestly I don't remember that we had discussed this issue in Germany so I can't acknowledge that there is a specific conversation on this."
"This is not a synod on sexuality. It is a synod on the young," Marx added.
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Fuanya suggested that two of the key ways in which the faith and teaching of the Church is handed over to younger generations are through the family and community. In these, he said, the African Church was setting an example.
"Church as community. Church as family is very strong for us," said the bishop. A strong sense of community in the Church is something "very important that Europe can learn from Africa," Fuanya said.
In Africa, "there's still a lot of things we do as community. That is the difference. What we are trying to do in these small Christian communities is to fight the increeping of individualism," he added.