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The Church and digital communication in Cuba

Multiply your presence in spite of the difficulties

By: P. Ariel Beramendi. The "wiki" global directory of media in the Catholic Church www.intermirifica.net just published the list of Catholic media in the Catholic Church in Cuba. One can see that there are about 60 organizations engaged in social communication in this country where the Church has no radio stations or television.

The communication landscape of the Cuban Church to emerge from "the yellow pages of Catholic communication" reflects the process and the evolution of the ways to proclaim the Good News so that it has resonance in the society through its 52 publications (printed and virtual), at least 6 affiliates and 2 producers, all with little access to the Internet.


But what was this internal process of communication Church in Cuba?

After several decades of silence specific steps were taken with the birth of the Christian Life published in 1967, its production went through the mimeograph and carbon paper, became popular in the decade of the 90's and later became hundreds of leaves or small newsletter for catechetical and mission in parish publications and groups (regular and time.) Thanks to these young people had many news bulletins of the Church of Jesus Christ for the first time.

Already in 1995 the RIIAL had implemented an internal communication network interdiocesan digital through the Apostolic Nuncio and the Episcopal Conference that, among other things, served to prepare the visit of John Paul II to the island

Following the Pope's historic visit to the island in January 1998, was systematizing the bishops access to channels provincial official radio single significant dates or important celebrations in the liturgical year (Christmas and Easter) and television broadcasts of speeches by bishops and occasional important celebrations of the Church in Cuba and the world.

With the "Internet boom" in the world, in the late 90's, despite the limited access in the Island, some bulletins began to be published on the Web, and explains the telecommunications engineer, Maria Lopez , head of the Media Commission of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba and current coordinator of the Catholic Press Union (UCP-Cuba) - "the diocese of Pinar del Rio and his magazine Vitral were" pioneers "in communication digital very early realized that the public space open Internet, it was necessary to use it to spread the message of the Word of God, the first mission of every Christian and every Church. Gradually, other relevant publications, made the leap: New Word, Space Lay, Bioethics ... that allowed them to not only extend to virtually the readership, but opened the possibility of immediacy, and contact "personal" with their readers, opening the possibility of exchange and debate, certainly limited by the frequency of themselves in print. "

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God bless you all. Buenaventura those who profess the words of the Holy Gospel.