THE CHURCH ENTERS THE WEB 2.0
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 3:48 am
Pope Benedict XVI wants to take advantage of the communication possibilities offered by the Web 2.0 and will be present on the participatory network through the site Pope2you.net. If politicians use the Internet to get in touch with young people, why shouldn't religion do so? The Church hopes to be in direct contact with its faithful in this way.
The Pope2you.net website is made up of various sections and advertising data participatory applications. On the one hand, there is Wikicath, which offers basic information about the Catholic religion, and is also connected to Joseph Ratzinger's Facebook page. But Facebook is not maintained and written by the Pope himself; it is used to publish texts written by him. In addition, the Vatican has created an iPhone application that allows users to receive news from the H2Onews channel .
The Evangelical Church is also adapting to the new times of communication: the Evangelisch.de portal, which is still in development , has started a project on Twitter. The team behind the portal, which is financed by the German Evangelical Church, wants to achieve a record by using users registered on the Evangelical Twitter channel to summarise all Bible passages in tweets between 20 and 31 May. Users who want to participate must register and receive the Bible passage they are to summarise. The “Twitter Bible” can be found here (in German).
The Pope2you.net website is made up of various sections and advertising data participatory applications. On the one hand, there is Wikicath, which offers basic information about the Catholic religion, and is also connected to Joseph Ratzinger's Facebook page. But Facebook is not maintained and written by the Pope himself; it is used to publish texts written by him. In addition, the Vatican has created an iPhone application that allows users to receive news from the H2Onews channel .
The Evangelical Church is also adapting to the new times of communication: the Evangelisch.de portal, which is still in development , has started a project on Twitter. The team behind the portal, which is financed by the German Evangelical Church, wants to achieve a record by using users registered on the Evangelical Twitter channel to summarise all Bible passages in tweets between 20 and 31 May. Users who want to participate must register and receive the Bible passage they are to summarise. The “Twitter Bible” can be found here (in German).