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Vatican City, Jun 13, 2012 \/ 01:56 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The Vatican has announced that it wants to create a \u201c.catholic\u201d domain name as a way of validating official Catholic institutions online \u2013 just one day after rolling out a major shift in its communications strategy.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cOur idea is that those communities that make up the Church will be able to apply to have this \u2018dot catholic\u2019 web address as a way of authenticating their presence in the web space,\u201d said Monsignor Paul Tighe, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, in an interview with Vatican Radio.<\/p>\n

\tThe online suffix would be granted by the Vatican to Catholic bodies across the world so that internet users \u201ccan be certain that it\u2019s coming from a genuinely Catholic source,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\tThe Vatican is just one of nearly 2,000 new applications to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the California-based organization that decides on new domain names.<\/p>\n

\tThe news comes only a day after the Vatican announced that the Holy See Press Office will start to publish media releases in English, Spanish and French from September 2012 onwards. At present, Vatican media releases are published principally in Italian, unless the original texts are in other languages.
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\n\tThe Vatican Press Office will also increase its staff, following the parallel decision to transfer workers across from the Vatican Information Service, which will close down at the end of July.<\/p>\n

\tCommonly referred to as the \u201cVIS,\u201d the service has issued news updates at 3:00 p.m. every Vatican workday since 1991. It currently has about 60,000 subscribers. They will now receive the translated Press Office bulletin instead.<\/p>\n

\tThe Vatican\u2019s Press Office also announced June 12 that \u201cthe extensive archive of more than 85,000 articles\u201d in various languages that were created by the VIS \u2026 \u201cwill be conserved and integrated, with a simple and rapid search engine,\u201d which will be accessible on the press office\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

\tMeanwhile, those VIS employees who are not transferred to the press office will be deployed \u201cto reinforce the multilingual 'news.va' portal which was established a year ago by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

\tLaunched by Pope Benedict XVI in June 2011, the news.va site brought together all the Vatican\u2019s communication outlets into one online location for the first time.<\/p>\n

\tThat list includes Fides News Agency, the newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the Holy See Press Office, the Vatican Information Service, Vatican Radio and the Vatican television service, CTV. However, each news source still maintains its own independent website.
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\n\tFinally, Vatican Radio has also announced plans to reduce its short and medium wave transmissions to most of Europe and the Americas, starting July 1.<\/p>\n

\tFounded in 1931, the station is increasingly using the newer technologies of satellite and the internet, as well as local rebroadcasting, to transmit its programs in 40 different languages around the world.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAfter celebrating its 80th birthday last year, Vatican Radio is ready to open a new chapter in its history by committing its message of service to the Gospel and the Church to new communication technologies,\u201d said the station\u2019s Director General, Father Federico Lombardi.<\/p>\n

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