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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Vatican Launches New News Portal With Tweet From Pope
The Vatican yesterday launched a new website, www.news.va designed as a news portal to bring together news from the Vatican's various print, radio, television and online services. As reported by Time, the launch of the website was announced through Twitter in the first Tweet by the Pope himself. The Tweet, also cross-posted on the Vatican's French Twitter feed, read: "Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI." Actually, the Pope only pressed the "send" button on his iPad. He did not keystroke the entire Tweet. A link to the Vatican news portal has been added to Religion Clause's sidebar.