VATICAN CITY (AFP) – Pope Benedict XVI
will join Twitter from December 12, with
regular tweets in eight languages from
the account @pontifex just in time for
Christmas, the Vatican said on Monday.
“The first tweets will be answers to
questions sent to the pope on matters of
faith. The public can start sending them
starting now,” the Vatican said.
The account already has 2,435 followers,
with numbers rising quickly immediately
after the announcement. An introductory
message read: “Welcome to the official
Twitter page of His Holiness Pope
Benedict XVI.”
The tweets will be in Arabic, English,
French, German, Italian, Polish,
Portuguese and Spanish and more
languages could be added in future.
“The pope’s presence on Twitter is a
concrete expression of his conviction
that the Church must be present in the
digital arena,” the Vatican said in a
statement.
It added that Benedict wanted “to
ensure that the good news of Jesus
Christ and the teaching of his Church is
permeating the forum of exchange and
dialogue that is being created by social
media”.
Several leading Vatican prelates are
already regular tweeters including
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the
Pontifical Council for Culture, as the
tradition-bound institution tries to reach
a younger global audience.http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/pope-to-open-twitter-account/

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