AFRICA - La Croix du Benin and DIA Agency in Congo: two Catholic realities celebrate anniversary

Tuesday, 23 January 2007

Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Two important Catholic media realities in Africa Cotonou based La Croix du Benin and DIA Catholic news agency based in Kinshasa Congo are marking respectively 60th and 50th anniversaries.
La Croix du Benin a bi-monthly publication, considered Benin’s the first privately owned newspaper, is marking the 60th anniversary of its establishment as La Croix du Dahomey, (today Benin).
On the occasion of the anniversary under the direction of its new editor Rev André Quenum the newspaper is revising its editorial line. New sections include the Family and History of the Church in Benin. La Croix du Benin intends to increase the number of correspondents in other west African countries in order to give voice to Sister Churches and foster exchange and communion among Christians on the continent.
The other Catholic media reality, DIA News Agency in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) is marking its 50th anniversary. It was opened in Belgian Congo on 18 January 1957, in Leopoldville, today Kinshasa, sponsored jointly by the Catholic Bishops of Congo and Rwanda-Urundi with the following goals: daily information service for African press; daily news service for Belgian and other foreign press; a special new service to Fides International Service of the Pontifical Mission Societies; weekly information service for monthly bulletins and private subscribers. For the founding Bishops the mission of DIA was to inform public opinion in Belgium, Congo and other countries of Catholic life in Congo; make known Catholic teaching on various issues, religious, social, scholastic, and political; make known Catholic viewpoints on temporal matters. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 23/1/2007 righe 32 parole 330)


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