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Hong Kong (Fides Service) – Catholic media must unite to defend justice , promote the rights of citizens and imbue society with the values of the Gospel values. These ideas were voiced by Bishops Joseph Zen of Hong Kong during the annual Meeting of OCIC International Catholic Organisation of the Cinema and Audio-Visuals branches in south east Asian countries.
Media operators from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao and South Korea came for the OCIC Meeting held at the Diocesan Audio-Visual Centre in Hong Kong to reflect on the challenges of communications today.
During the meeting the participants listen to talks and reports and shared their experience. They also watched a documentary film. Speaking on “Communications and Social Justice” Bishop Zen urged those present to be spokesmen for the weak, the poor and the excluded. Auxiliary Bishop John Tong spoke about Chinese Catholicism today.
The film projected by the Diocesan Audio-Visual Centre of Hong Kong was “The Lord’s People - YunNan” on the life of ethnic minority groups in north west China and the evangelisation of these peoples. Father Matteo Zhong director of Radio Veritas Taiwan illustrated the activity of this Catholic multi-media centre which is visited by more than one million people every year. Father Ding director of the Jesuit Publishing House in Taiwan underlined the different regional needs and is recommended a structure open to ideas and suggestions from all sides. As part of the Meeting the participants visited Holy Spirit Study Centre Of Hong Kong, a high Catholic multi-media centre equipped with all the modern technological means. (NZ) (Fides Service 28/11/2003 Lines: 36 Words: 352)
