Vatican to launch YouTube channel

BY ED WEST
THE VATICAN is to launch its own YouTube channel after an agreement with the website's owners Google.
The online video-sharing website YouTube has hundreds of "channels", effectively video libraries, put out by television stations, political entities such as the EU, and private organisations.
The Vatican channel will
feature video and audio footage of papal addresses as well as news from the Holy See. The YouTube channel will complement the Vatican's media outlets, which include the daily newspaper L'Osservatore Romano and Vatican Radio, which broadcasts in 39 languages.
The Holy See's website, www.vatican.va, was launched in 1995 and publishes the Pope's pronouncements and encyclicals. The Vatican also has a Facebook page, and the Pope has 24,782 fans on the website. Last month the Holy See approved an i Phone application, the iBreviary, which allows users to download the daily prayer.