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Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) - A new web site www.biblegujarat.org recently inaugurated by the Church in Gujarat State will serve as a channel of communion for the different Catholic communities, a new means of evangelisation reaching out to people near and far who surf the web. The project has been entrusted to the Catholic Information Service Society CISS directed by the local Jesuit community already involved in evangelisation by means of correspondence courses on Jesus Christ and the Bible. The web site was officially opened by Archbishop Thomas Macwan archbishop of the diocese of Ahmedamad.
The web site in English and Gujarati offers a mine of information on Christ and the Bible. The project was approved in the local Church in March 2005 and Pope Benedict’s call to use the Internet to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ speeded up the procedure. The web site has a home page in colour, photographs, texts, statistics and areas of interaction. It is a means of accessing information on the four Catholic dioceses in Gujarat. The Bible is available in Hindi as well as English and Gujarati. The web site also offers answers to ‘frequent’ questions such as “Who is Jesus Christ? And What are the Old Testament and New Testament? The answers are provided by CISS director Fr Paul Varghese SJ.
“Internet is a vast field in which we can and we must proclaim the Gospel and render visible God’s love for all men and women especially the poor and the needy”, say local Catholics who want the web site to be a point of reference and a link of communion for Catholics all over the state as well as a link with other local web sites run by other dioceses and the Bishops’ Conference, to serve as a bridge across the nation. (Agenzia Fides 23/5/2006 righe 27 parole 270)
