H2onews lands YouTube!

A year from its take off, the multimedia information service H2onews, together with broadcasters and producers of Catholic TV from around the world has arrived on You Tube. With its mission to provide news coverage on the life of the Church, beginning today H2onews will be present on YouTube in two modes: with its own H2onews Channel (www.youtube.com/h2onews) and within the Vatican Channel (www.youtube.com/vatican), providing translations of the daily news in English, German and Spanish. Channel H2onews, with daily updates of news of religious events, available in audio, video and text, will maintain the original vision of the multilingual homepage, serving 9 languages: Italian, English, French, German, Arabic, Spanish, Hungarian, Chinese and Portuguese. The launching of the H2onews Channel coincides with the presentation of Benedict XVI's message for the 43th World Communications Day, entitled "New Technologies, New Relationships: Promoting a culture of respect, dialogue and friendship". The presentation was given by Msgr. Claudio Maria Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, along with other members of the Vatican Congregation and representatives of Google. Father Federico Lombardi, director of Vatican Radio, the Vatican Television Center and the Holy See Press Office, stressed that "the link to the H2onews Channel is very important, since it contains many other video-news on the life of the Church in the world, due to collaboration with several Catholic TV agencies from various countries, which can also be reached through the H2onews channel. " The Jesuit priest also pointed out that this new Vatican presence on the Internet, "and for that matter, the spread of Catholic Social Communications around the world, has depended to a large degree on collaboration with H2onews, which was born precisely to work in this field."

A year from its take off, the multimedia information service H2onews, together with broadcasters and producers of Catholic TV from around the world has arrived on You Tube. With its mission to provide news coverage on the life of the Church, beginning today H2onews will be present on YouTube in two modes: with its own H2onews Channel (www.youtube.com/h2onews) and within the Vatican Channel (www.youtube.com/vatican), providing translations of the daily news in English, German and Spanish. Channel H2onews, with daily updates of news of religious events, available in audio, video and text, will maintain the original vision of the multilingual homepage, serving 9 languages: Italian, English, French, German, Arabic, Spanish, Hungarian, Chinese and Portuguese. The launching of the H2onews Channel coincides with the presentation of Benedict XVI's message for the 43th World Communications Day, entitled "New Technologies, New Relationships: Promoting a culture of respect, dialogue and friendship". The presentation was given by Msgr. Claudio Maria Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, along with other members of the Vatican Congregation and representatives of Google. Father Federico Lombardi, director of Vatican Radio, the Vatican Television Center and the Holy See Press Office, stressed that "the link to the H2onews Channel is very important, since it contains many other video-news on the life of the Church in the world, due to collaboration with several Catholic TV agencies from various countries, which can also be reached through the H2onews channel. " The Jesuit priest also pointed out that this new Vatican presence on the Internet, "and for that matter, the spread of Catholic Social Communications around the world, has depended to a large degree on collaboration with H2onews, which was born precisely to work in this field."