Articles on this issue "media"
The BBC will be scrapping Popetown, an unfavorable cartoon caricature of the Pope about the inner workings of the Vatican. The Catholic Communications Service reported the announcement of …
read moreCatechists are essential in the Church's pastoral and evangelizing work, but material aid is needed to form them, says a longtime missionary in Cameroon. "I have been a missionary in Cameroon …
read moreThe establishment of an Iraqi government "counts a lot" in the country's ongoing reconstruction, says a Vatican spokesman. Joaquín Navarro Valls, director of the Vatican press office, …
read moreOn June 25 the Austria-based U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) issued its annual report on illicit drug use. According to the two-volume World Drug Report 2004, about 3% of the world's …
read moreSpain's bishops have awarded communications prizes to the ZENIT news agency and to Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ." The 2004 "Bravo!" prizes, among the most prestigious of Spain, …
read moreThe Holy See's semiofficial newspaper says the U.N. Security Council's approval of a resolution on Iraq has "opened a new chapter in the history" of the country. Today's Italian edition of …
read moreA Catholic Indian citizen was arrested and tortured in Saudi Arabia because of his faith, according to L'Osservatore Romano. The semiofficial Vatican newspaper, quoting sources of the Fides …
read moreThe weekend attacks in Saudi Arabia, linked to al-Qaida, prompted the semiofficial Vatican newspaper to call for greater international cooperation against terrorism and its causes. In the …
read moreJohn Paul II's latest book shows that his "interest is not focused on the past but on the future," says a Vatican spokesman. Joaquín Navarro Valls, director of the Vatican press office, gave …
read moreL'Osservatore Romano reported the ratification by 150 countries of the International Convention Against Child Labor. The semiofficial Vatican newspaper in its Italian edition today added that …
read moreA nongovernmental organization launched an appeal from the Vatican calling for cooperation between rich nations and developing countries to make good-quality pharmaceuticals available at low …
read moreHorror and shame" were the words that appeared repeatedly on L'Osservatore Romano's front page when it commented on the torture of prisoners in Iraq by U.S. military units. "The Iraqi …
read moreA television station's plan to show an abortion on TV "could prove a powerful anti-abortion message, highlighting the full horror" of the procedure, says a Catholic archbishop. Archbishop …
read moreArchbishop Mario Conti accused British Broadcasting Corporation of encouraging "a tabloid culture" in which it has been guilty of "gross insensitivity" to the Catholic Church. In a letter to …
read moreBy Delia Gallagher The first journalists were angels, according to Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who spoke at a Mass in Rome on Sunday celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Vatican press …
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