''Aleteia'' is an online
Catholic
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news and information website founded in 2011/2012 by
Jesús Colina
Jesús Colina (born 1969 in Miranda de Ebro) is a Spanish journalist who worked in Rome. He led the Zenit News Agency, and currently directs the Aleteia newspaper.
In 1991 he was the editor of ''Proyección Mundial'', then Catholic World Report ...
via the Foundation for Evangelization through the Media.
It has the approval of the
Pontifical Council for Social Communications and the
Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization
The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization (Latin: ''Pontificium Consilium de Nova Evangelizatione''), also translated as Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, was a pontifical council of the Roman Curia whose cre ...
.
[
The President of the foundation is Olivier Bonnassies, Bruno Riviere de Precourt.][ Members and Paolo Padrini are active in managing the Spanish site.][ The English site is operated under Editor-in-Chief Fr Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP.
The organization is based in France but operates in different languages and states worldwide. It is distributed in eight languages and editions (English, French, ]Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
, Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
, Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
, Arabic, Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
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and Slovenian
Slovene or Slovenian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Slovenia, a country in Central Europe
* Slovene language, a South Slavic language mainly spoken in Slovenia
* Slovenes
The Slovenes, also known as Slovenians ( sl, Sloven ...
).
References
Catholic media
Multilingual news services
News agencies based in France
Catholic websites
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