ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Suwon diocese starts country’s first Catholic weekly: for information, formation and evangelisation

Friday, 6 February 2004

Suwon (Fides Service) – Suwon diocese, lying south of Seoul, has its own Catholic weekly publication. After a period of trial, reflection and training of staff the first issue of Gyeonggi Catholic Times, was distributed after Sunday masses. Published with the help of the Gyeonggi Daily, the Catholic paper will be printed in about 100,000 copies will be distributed free on Sundays in the 156 parishes and organisations in the diocese.
The printing costs will be covered partly with advertising, giving priority to suitable products selected with moral criteria, and partly with a contribution from the diocese.
For some time, the Bishop, Mons. Paul Choi Duk-ki had said that the diocese needed its own means of information and evangelisation. More than once he said that the Church must make use of the media which is fundamental in the globalised society of the third millennium. Describing the objective of the Catholic newspaper, Bishop Paul Choi Duk-ki, said its task is to “inform regularly the people of diocesan activities and events, to promote dialogue in every field and to be an agile tool of formation on religious themes and also social problems; to go beyond the Catholic world to reach out to non Christians and become a means of evangelisation ”.
(PA) ( Fides Service 6/2/2004 Lines: 25 Words: 243)


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