AsiaNews

AsiaNews is an official press agency of the Roman Catholic Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME).[1][2] The editor-in-chief of AsiaNews is Father Bernardo Cervellera,[3] a PIME missionary[1] who also heads Agenzia Fides, the official news agency of the Vatican.[4]

Description

News from AsiaNewsonline.com is republished by the Catholic press agencies MISNA and Zenit.[5] 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".[5] 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.[5] AsiaNews describes itself as "a great accomplishment in evangelization, which is the work of God"[2] and as "bolster[ing] the [Roman Catholic] Church's mission in China".[5] The AsiaNews has professional correspondents from Bangladesh, India, Gulf, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vatican, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Russia, among other countries.

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References
  1. Fazzini, Gerolamo (2009). The Red Book of Chinese Martyrs: Testimonies and Autobiographical Accounts. Ignatius Press. pp. 341, 349.
  2. "Help AsiaNews". AsiaNewsonline.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
  3. Pigozzi, Caroline (2008). Pope John Paul II: An Intimate Life: The Pope I Knew So Well. Hachette Book Group. p. 125.
  4. BBC (1999). Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific, Issues 3484-3497. BBC Monitoring. p. G-4.
  5. Cervellera, Bernardo (2003-02-04). "www.asianewsonline.com Now Available in English and Chinese". AsiaNewsonline.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
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