Catholic News Agencies and Services

Zenit, based in Rome, is one of many Catholic news agencies in the world

Christianity has many different Churches (community of believers), among which, the Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian Church having more than one billion members all over the world. The Pope, now Pope Benedict XVI, acts as the representative of Jesus Christ, the founder of this Church. All Roman Catholics pay their allegiance to the Pope as their religious leader.

The Roman Catholic Church has thousands of missions and missionaries all over the world. It also runs numerous educational institutions (schools, colleges, universities, seminaries and others), administers hospitals, clinics and dispensaries and performs different types of charities through other institutions and organizations.

The presence and influence of the Roman Catholic Church and its members are felt in all parts of the world.

I present below names of important Catholic news agencies and news services that disseminate news of the Catholic Church and its members.

Catholic News Agencies and News Services:

• aciprensa (Catholic news service in Portuguese and Spanish focusing on Latin America) (Lima, Peru)

• Agenzia Fides (News agency of the Vatican's Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples -- in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish) (Vatican City)
• Agenzia SIR (Servizio Informazione Religiosa) (In Italian, news agency of the Catholic Bishops of Italy) (Rome, Italy)
• AsiaNews.it (Jointly run by MISNA and Zenit -- in English and Chinese) (Italy)
• Bulletin of the Holy See (Communiques, speeches and documents of the Pope) (Vatican City)
• CathNews (CN) (Australia)
• CathNews ASIA (A service of the UCA News) (Hong Kong)
• CathNews INDIA (A service of the UCA News) (Hong Kong)
• CathNews USA (A service of the UCA News) (Hong Kong)
• Catholic News (Catholic news headlines from orthodox Catholic sources) (USA)
• Catholic News Agency (CNA) (In English, affiliated with aciprensa.com) (Denver, Colorado, USA)
• Catholic News Agency (CNA) TV on the Youtube (USA)
• Catholic News Service (CNS) (News agency of the U.S. Catholic Bishops) (Washington, D.C., USA)
• Catholic News Service Blog (Washington, D.C., USA)
• Catholic Online (Bakersfield, California, USA)
• Catholic World News (CWN) (Manassas, Virginia, USA)
• CatInfor.com (Latest Catholic information updated) (USA)
  
• Chicago Catholic News (An independent information source) (Chicago, Michigan, USA)
  
• Christian News Online (Australia)
• EWTNNews (Irondale, Alabama, USA)
• EWTN on the Youtube (Irondale, Alabama, USA)
• H2ONews (Catholic news service in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Magyar, Portuguese, and Spanish) (Rome, Italy)
• H2ONews on the Youtube (Rome, Italy)
• i.media (French news agency specializing on the Vatican) (France)
• Independent Catholic News (ICN) (London, U.K.)
• Infocatho (News agency of the French Bishops) (France)
• kath.net (Katholische Nachrichten) (The Christian world as seen from Austria) (In Albanian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian, and Spanish) (Vienna, Austria)
• Kathpress (In German) (Vienna, Austria)
• KIPA/APIC (In German and French) (Switzerland)
• KNA (Katholische Nacrichten-Agentur) (In English, French, German, Italian and Spanish) (Bonn, Germany)
• LifeSiteNews.com (Pro-life news) (Front Royal, Virginia, USA & Toronto, Canada)
• MISNA (Missionary International Service News Agency dealing with news of Catholic missionary organizations) (In Arabic, Italian, English, French and Spanish) (Rome, Italy)
• MissiOnLine (By PIME missionary organization) (Italy)
• Misyon (Catholic news agency of the Missionary Society of St. Columban) (The Philippines)
• Rome Reports TV News Agency (In English and Spanish) (Rome, Italy)
• Rome Reports TV Channel on the Youtube (Rome, Italy)
• Salt and Light Television (Toronto, Canada)
• SMC News Radio (First Catholic Internet Radio from India) (Kerala, India)
• Spirit Daily (USA)
• The Vatican on the Youtube (In English, German, Italian and Spanish) (Vatican City)
• UCA News (Union of Catholic Asian News) (Hong Kong)
• Vatican Information Service (VIS) (Daily news service in Castellano, English, French and Italian) (Vatican City)
• Vatican Information Service (VIS) Blog (In English, French, Italian and Spanish) (Vatican City)
• www.chiesa (News in English, French, Italian and Spanish) (Rome, Italy)
• Zenit (International news agency giving news in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish) (Rome, Italy)