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November 12th, 2009, 02:36 PM
VATICAN CITY -- Executives from Facebook, Wikipedia and Google are attending a Vatican meeting to brief officials and Catholic bishops about the Internet and digital youth culture.
The symposium, which opened Thursday and runs through Sunday, also will address Internet copyright issues and hacking -- including testimony from a young Swiss hacker and an Interpol cyber-crime official.
The meeting is being hosted by the European bishop's media commission and is designed to delve into questions about what Internet culture means for the church's mission and how the church communicates that mission to others.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,574628,00.html?test=latestnews
From the article:
The Vatican's top communications official, Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, has said a key priority of the Catholic Church is to be able to use new technologies to spread its message, particularly to the young.
"Our dream in this global village created by new technologies is that the church and Jesus' disciples can have their tent -- Jesus' tent -- so that the attention of men and women who walk the streets of the world is turned toward it," he said recently on Vatican Radio.
The symposium, which opened Thursday and runs through Sunday, also will address Internet copyright issues and hacking -- including testimony from a young Swiss hacker and an Interpol cyber-crime official.
The meeting is being hosted by the European bishop's media commission and is designed to delve into questions about what Internet culture means for the church's mission and how the church communicates that mission to others.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,574628,00.html?test=latestnews
From the article:
The Vatican's top communications official, Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, has said a key priority of the Catholic Church is to be able to use new technologies to spread its message, particularly to the young.
"Our dream in this global village created by new technologies is that the church and Jesus' disciples can have their tent -- Jesus' tent -- so that the attention of men and women who walk the streets of the world is turned toward it," he said recently on Vatican Radio.