Once again the FSPs and SSPs of Italy have banded together to celebrate the seventh annual Communications Week (13-20 May 2012)–an initiative organized to highlight the Pope’s Message for the occasion, which this year is entitled, Silence and Word: Path of Evangelization. Numerous courses, seminars, conferences, debates, TV/radio programs, festivals, etc. have been programmed in… Read more »
The Episcopal Conferences of Europe have inaugurated a new information portal that offers each Conference the chance to disseminate news about its initiatives. The articles are automatically translated into the 32 languages spoken in Europe. (www.eurocathinfo.eu) “This necessary instrument is the fruit of the communion of bishops,” said Cardinal Peter Erdo, president of the Council… Read more »
Pierre Babin, a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and a renowned expert in the field of religious communication, has died at the age of 87. Fr. Babin, who was passionately interested in the mass media and sociology, founded the Crec Avex Research and Training Center in Ecully (near Lyon) France, where hundreds… Read more »
Maìn: The House of Happiness: this is the title of a film on the life of Sr. Maria Domenica Mazzarello (affectionately known as Maìn), the religious who helped Don Bosco found the Institute of the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians. The film, which premiered in Rome on 4 May 2012 in the auditorium of… Read more »
UNESCO has proclaimed 23 April as World Book Day. Now in its 15th year, the event is meant to restore primacy to books and help kids get to know them. The celebration encourages people to read and to frequent book stores and libraries. UNESCO, in collaboration with a committee made up of the International Publishers… Read more »
