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[email protected] t Vol. XXV, No. 11 November 2010 INDIAN BISHOP HEADS FABC-OSC INDONESIA: ONLINE CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY LAUNCHED Bishop Chacko Thottumarickal SVD, Bishop of Indore and The first online Catholic news agency of the Church in Indonesia Chairman, CBCI (Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India) was launched in May this year. “PEN@,” for “Pastoral and Commission for Social Communication, has been appointed Ecclesiastical News Agency,” is accessible at <http:// Chairman of the FABC-Office of Social Communications (FABC- penaindonesia.net/> with news, features, archives, photo gallery OSC). He succeeds Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore, who and editorial sections all in Bahasa Indonesia language. headed the office for the past seven years. 61-year old Bishop Correspondents are stationed at their respective dioceses and Chacko has a Master’s degree in communications from the U.K. contribute stories via email. PEN@ aims to provide information He also chairs the National Institute of Social Communications, about the local churches to a wider online audience. This project Research and Training (NISCORT) in India. The other members of was conceived and is being managed by Dominican Father Andreas the FABC-OSC are Bishop Philip Huang of Hualien, Taiwan, Kurniawan, veteran Church journalist Paul Pati, and a lay Dominican Bishop Honesto Ongtioco of Cubao, Philippines, Bishop Petrus volunteer serving as the site’s web master.