• Meeting of bishops with responsibility for social communications in Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences
    Athens, Greece, 3-5 November 2014
     
    What is the impact of digital communication on thinking and living the faith? Can the virtual encounter be communication and an opportunity for an authentic encounter? And how can Christian witness be expressed in the digital universe? These are some of the questions which the bishops with responsibility for social communications in Europe’s Bishops’ Conferences, accompanied by their experts, will tackle in Athens in the light of Pope Francis’ Message for the 2014 World Communications Day.
     
    The meeting, promoted by CCEE’s Commission for Social Communications, chaired by His Lordship Mgr José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre, Bishop of San Sebastian (Spain), will also be attended by the President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, His Grace Mgr Claudio Celli. The Maltese Episcopal Conference will be represented by the Secretariat for Social Communications of the Archdiocese of Malta.
     
    In Athens, the 30 participants will be helped in their reflections by experts in the field of social communications, such as Fr Antonio Spadaro SJ, director of the journal “La Civiltà Cattolica”; Prof. Arturo Merayo Perez, lecturer at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the University of Murcia (Spain); and Fr Roderick Vonhögen, founder of Star Quest Production Network and Trideo TV (Holland).
     
    The meeting will also include a presentation about the work in the field of social communications undertaken by the Media Office of the Greek Bishops’ Conference, given by its director, Sebastianos Roussos.