BANGKOK MEETING FOCUSSES ON MEDIA CHALLENGES FOR THE CHURCH

VATICAN CITY, NOV 23, 1999 (VIS) - The Pontifical Council for Social Communications has released a message from council president, Archbishop John P. Foley, to the participants in the meeting of the FABC-OSC (Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences-Office of Social Communications), which began yesterday in Bangkok, Thailand and ends November 27.

Fr. Patrick Casserly, an official of the pontifical council, is representing Archbishop Foley at the meeting, whose theme is "Megatrends Asia: Communication Challenges for the Church?" The message, dated November 19, focussed on three points of the recent Apostolic Exhortation "Ecclesia in Asia" which have to do with the media and social communications.

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