Informativna katolička agencija ('Informative Catholic Agency', IKA) is a Croatian Catholic

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History and mission

The agency was established by the

Croatian Bishops' Conference The Croatian Bishops' Conference (; ) (HBK) is an episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in Croatia. The Conference was founded on May 15, 1993 after Croatia regained its independence after the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, which ...

on with the aim to collect and publish information about religious life and events in the Catholic Church in the Croatian-speaking world, as well as in churches around the world. The first news were published in November 1993. The first editor-in-chief was

Živko Kustić Živko Kustić (12 December 1930 – 19 July 2014) was a Croatian journalist and writer. Kustić studied mathematics, physics, and theology at the University of Zagreb before being ordained as a priest of the Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and ...

. In 1999 he was succeeded by Anton Šuljić and since 2006, the chief editor has been Suzana Vrhovski Peran. Since 2018, IKA has been part of the media platform Croatian Catholic Network (; HKM), together with the Croatian Catholic Radio (HKR). As of 2024, IKA publishes around fifty pieces of information a day, with the most important ones also being translated into English. IKA's headquarters are in

Zagreb Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the ...

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