KOTA KINABALU: Social communicators from the nine Catholic dioceses in Malaysia and Brunei emerged from their annual meeting with a renewed zeal for their work. The four-day Episcopal Regional Conference for Social Communication (ERCSC) comes just ahead of a busy…
KOTA KINABALU - This year's annual meeting of the Regional Commission for Social Communication (RCSC) of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei via Microsoft Teams on Sept 13-14 was quite different. The members were not required to submit their annual reports as…
Abel Ferrara began his movie-making career directing pornography. Now he’s making a movie about one of the most popular Catholic saints from the 20th century: St. Pio of Pietrelcina, commonly known as Padre Pio. The director's involvement in the porn…
Pope Francis says SIGNIS “can play an important role” in meeting the challenge of “toxicity, hate speech, and fake news” in the media. Although modern means of communication can be “a powerful means of fostering communion and dialogue within our…
Religious sisters can bring Christ to social media and foster an encounter with God who loves us deeply, according to Sr. Orianne, a Canadian-born Pauline nun now serving in the US city of Boston and around the world. Is it…
KOTA KINABALU: Over 100 social communication (Soccom) practitioners from the Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu (ADKK) gathered in person to celebrate the 56th World Communications Day on Sunday, May 29, 2022. They were doing so for the first time since the…
The Embassy of the Netherlands to the Holy See organizes a conference looking at the heroic role of Dutch journalist and World War II martyr Fr. Titus Brandsma in promoting truth, human rights, and freedom of the press - a…
In his Message for the World Day of Social Communications, Pope Francis says listening is an indispensable first step in human communication, and a dimension of love. After focusing last year on seeing reality and conveying it to others, Pope Francis in…
Half of BBC’s "100 Women" of the year are of Afghan origin who have been the targets of the Taliban. Among the others is Catholic nun Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng of Myanmar. Among the BBC’s “list of 100 inspiring…
The Pauline Family celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Blessed James Alberione, the Founder of the Pauline Family, a modern apostle of the media. It was 26 November 1971 when Pope Paul VI, a long-time friend of the…