AsiaNews is an official press agency of the Catholic Church's Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME).
Description
News from AsiaNews is republished by the Catholic press agencies
MISNA and Zenit.
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".
AsiaNews's intended audience is Chinese university students, who it believes are "curious 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.
AsiaNews describes itself as "a great accomplishment in
evangelization, which is the work of God"
and as "bolstering the Roman Church's mission in China".
The AsiaNews has professional
from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vatican, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, and Russia, among other countries.
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