Subject: VISnews 110315   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 50   
   ENGLISH   
   TUESDAY, 15 MARCH 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Facebook and Youtube Pages on John Paul II Beatification   
      
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   FACEBOOK AND YOUTUBE PAGES ON JOHN PAUL II BEATIFICATION   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 15 MAR 2011 (VIS) - The Holy See Press Office has published   
   the following communique:   
      
     "In view of the beatification of John Paul II on 1 May 2011, Vatican Radio   
   and the Vatican Television Centre (CTV) have organised a number of   
   initiatives and made a wide range of documentary material available.   
      
     "A new page dedicated to John Paul II for his beatification has been   
   activated on Youtube. The page is available at the following address:   
   http://www.youtube.com/giovannipaoloii and includes video clips on the   
   pontificate year by year, as well as video clips with the Pope's voice in   
   various languages and situations (on trips and in the Vatican).   
      
     "These are audio recordings supplied and selected by the language   
   programmes of Vatican Radio, which have then been mounted onto video by CTV.   
   The audio of the Pope will be in the original language in which it was   
   pronounced, with English-language subtitles indicating the place (country),   
   day, month and year of the event.   
      
     "The dedicated Youtube page - as well as the normal channel which has   
   existed for some time in four languages www.youtube.com/vatican - will be   
   supplied with video clips of current events and information concerning the   
   days of the beatification.   
      
     "A new page has also been activated on Facebook concerning John Paul II in   
   view of his beatification. It may be consulted at this address:   
   www.facebook.com/vatican.johnpaul2. All the video clips uploaded to the   
   Youtube channel will be available at the same time on this page.   
      
     "The aim is to diversify the instruments so as to give this initiative as   
   great an exposure and as wide a coverage as possible. Unlike other   
   initiatives already present on the Internet in various forms, initiatives by   
   private individuals not associated with the Holy See, this carries the joint   
   signatures of Vatican Radio and of the Vatican Television Centre, it has   
   been agreed with the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and is, of   
   course, open to all users of Facebook.   
      
     "The general objective is to accompany the course of the beatification   
   using the instruments technology makes available, making full use of the   
   resources at our disposal and, at least in part, of the vast documentary   
   archives held by Vatican Radio and the Vatican Television Centre".   
   OP/                                                                     VIS   
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