Pope Francis combats disinformation and manipulation of facts by calling for an international conference to address the phenomenon.
Pope Francis, in his weekly General Audience, has spoken out against the manipulation of facts and the spread of disinformation both in traditional and new media. The pontiff said the “temptation to manipulate knowledge for haste, for interest, for power,” is not just about redefining the truth, but involves impoverishment and a failure to “see reality.” The head of the Roman Catholic Church called for an event to be held in the Vatican in June to address this global issue.
This summer, in a new world capital for cyberspace, silicon-chip magnates and virtual-reality pioneers are to convene at the first Vatican conference on communications, hoping to help chart a course that will let a technology predominantly used for video games and online pornography flourish while also meeting the needs of the world’s poor, gaining dignity for the unborn and giving a voice to the voiceless.
Pope Francis.
Pope Francis’ visit to Lesbos in March 2016 during which he met Syrian war refugees who drowned off the coast of the small Greek island symbolically represented a change in the Church’s approach to charity.
These are this pope’s priorities.
Francis, born in Argentina as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was elected head of the world’s 1.2-billion Catholics in March 2013, soon after Benedict’s historic decision to resign.
On March 15, 2016, on the anniversary of his election, a series of speeches he made over the past year gave insight into the depth of the Catholic Church’s reform — and the road ahead. They included momentous addresses, like the one he gave in Madrid on his way to the Philistine-Canaanite border.
Pope Francis with a Palestinian family who lost their home to Israeli settlers.
Since 2013, its global Journalists for the Pope Facebook page has grown 50 fold, producing a massive amount of content, and meeting with likely hundreds of thousands of people.
The DM’s Ariana News for its Facebook and its Twitter account. How do these DM releases look on the Vatican’s Stampa, Radio Vaticano and FidesNews, you ask? Here you are.
This is the extension of an ever-growing reality, where the Holy See and Catholic Church keep an updated and solid presence in traditional and new media, with the support of the broad digital reality offered by today’s technology, and equally careful and selective in the content it generates, and in that which it publishes and broadcasts.
Catholic News Agency, which produces original news reports, commentaries, PIOs, Catholic times, press-releases, facts, and figures, in three languages, Spanish, English and French, which are then exported and given to hundreds of Organizations, Media, and Catholic NGOs to analyze and translate, besides making them available at their websites, Internet and social networks, plus makes financial donations to send young priests and religious men and women to countries where the Church is not present or is in danger zones.
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