Surf Wiki
Save to docs
geography/china

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

AsiaNews

Roman Catholic official publication

Summary

Roman Catholic official publication

AsiaNews is an official press agency of the Catholic Church's Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME). The editor-in-chief of AsiaNews is Father Bernardo Cervellera, a PIME missionary who also heads Agenzia Fides, the official news agency of the Vatican. Prominent British Bangladeshi journalist and human rights activist William Gomes worked for Asia news.

Description

The Catholic press agencies MISNA and Zenit republish news from AsiaNews. Originally available in the Italian language, the website has since expanded into English and Chinese in 2003 to enhance the "missionary aspect of our news agency". AsiaNews's intended audience is Chinese university students, who it believes are "curi[ous] about Christianity" and may save China from being "a soulless market or ... dictatorship". It describes its presence as "urgent" because of what it calls the "empowerment" of atheism in Chinese schools and the "persecution" of Christians in China. AsiaNews describes itself as "a great accomplishment in evangelization, which is the work of God" and as "bolster[ing] the [Roman Catholic] Church's mission in China". The AsiaNews has professional correspondents from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vatican, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, and Russia, among other countries.

References

References

  1. Fazzini, Gerolamo. (2009). "The Red Book of Chinese Martyrs: Testimonies and Autobiographical Accounts". [[Ignatius Press]].
  2. Pigozzi, Caroline. (2008). "Pope John Paul II: An Intimate Life: The Pope I Knew So Well". [[Hachette Book Group]].
  3. BBC. (1999). "Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific, Issues 3484-3497". [[BBC Monitoring]].
  4. "Christian human rights activist abducted and tortured in Bangladesh".
  5. "Christian convert from Islam and family threatened with death".
  6. Cervellera, Bernardo. (2003-02-04). "www.asianews.it Now Available in English and Chinese". AsiaNews.it.
  7. "Help AsiaNews". AsiaNews.it.
Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

asian-news-websites christian-missions-in-china catholic-church-in-china vatican-city-news-websites
Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about AsiaNews — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report