Nepal Christian media launch new network

Christians working in print, radio and televison in Nepal recently launched a Christian communicators’ networking group after a two-day meeting in Kathmandu.

Digital divide challenge for Bangladesh church

A Dhaka lecture on digital communications by Vatican Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli has exposed the extent of media challenges for the Bangladesh Church.

Pakistan Christian TV

Pakistan Christian TV features news and events affecting the Church around the world.

Chitrabani

Chitrabani is the social communication centre sponsored by the Kolkata Province of the Society of Jesus.

International Catholic Union of the Press

The Union Catholique Internationale de la Presse (UCIP) is a world forum of professional journalists, publishers and professors of journalism and communication in the secular and religious media.

The new way of being church

As people recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the news was full of euphoric memories as well as critical analysis. Berlin’s Archbishop Cardinal Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky pointed out that there are still fundamental differences across that former East-West border. (Virginia Saldanha, UCA News)
People from the West [...]

Journalists covering religion: challenges and rewards

Scepticism or cynicism. Advocacy or sabotage. Freedom of expression or religious sensitivity. Recent years have witnessed conflicts and rampant violence in different corners of the world. Interestingly, religion and mass media have often been attributed to being among the key factors behind the growing spats, and in turn, each often eyes the other as the [...]

Don’t stop the presses — yet

Throughout the world, newspapers appear to be on the verge of extinction. Electronic media, beginning with radio and television, but now especially the Internet, have drawn readers away from the printed page as a means of distributing news. (Maryknoll Father William Grimm, UCA News)
The result has been a loss in subscription and advertising revenue for newspaper [...]

Catholic communicators challenged to listen to kids

Delegates at the recently concluded SIGNIS World Congress have been challenged to heed the voice of children in their communications work. (UCA News)
“Listen to us,” “Believe in us,” “Trust us,” “Dream of us,” “Walk with us,” “Guide us.” These were the messages that 100 teenage participants at the congress had for more than 300 adult [...]

SIGNIS head urges greater outreach to young people

The Church and media workers have to do more to reach out to young people, according to the head of a worldwide Church communications organization. (UCA News)
“Too often the rights of the young have been ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media,” observes Augustine Loorthusamy, president of SIGNIS. The worldwide Catholic association for professionals and [...]

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