KETAPANG, INDONESIA, March 3, 2003 (ucanews.com): A bishop in a remote jungle area of Indonesia has asked local Church personnel to make the fullest possible use of Internet facilities that the diocese helped to establish. Bishop Blasius Pujaraharja of Ketapang says he wants priests as well as members of the various commissions of his diocese on Borneo Island to use modern technologies to boost pastoral works and community developmentReports from the International Association of Catholic Missiologists.
Other Epsicopal statements on the use of the Internet in Evangelization….
The Internet at the Service of Proclaiming the Gospel The Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia marked World Communications Day with a special call to clergy, religious and catechists to use the internet as a means to proclaim the Gospel. The internet is a “new forum”, and clergy, religious and catechists are called to enter the forum to proclaim the Good News. To mark the Communications Day, the Indonesian bishops’ commission launched a homepage at http://www.mirifica.net to exchange information among dioceses in the country.
Philippine bishops have also launched a service on World Communications Day to offer their churches and schools filtered access to the Internet. Seven bishops and 200 diocesan media directors, priests and nuns from schools gathered at the Apostolic Nuncio’s residence in downtown Manila for the launching of CBCP World, an Internet service provider of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines. With ties to the IBM Microsoft companies, the new service provider with the website http://www.cbcpworld.com offers technical advice, free site hosting, and blocks access to sites that contain pornography, homosexuality, violence and devil worship.
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