This way li there has shown the spokesman of the Holy See, Federico Lombardi, after the Italian press was reporting that it is on the point of going out to the waves "the CNN of the Pope".

Lombardi underlined that this television project is an initiative of a group of persons and that the Television Center Vatican, entrusted of distributing the images of the Holy See, it is interested in this initiative, as soon as it is a television that will pay attention to the information that the Vatican and the Pope generates.

The director of the catholic news agency Zenit, of the Legionaries of Christ, the Spanish Jesus Colina, presented the audio-visual channel last October in Madrid during the celebration of I Congress of Catholic Televisions of the World, where it already received the support of the Holy See.

The format of the news will be brief and agile and it will be transmitted by means of the web page www.h2onews.tv although the project also will be able to adapt itself to the news mailing by means of messages of mobile telephony.

The television channel, which he claims autofinanciarse, will spread between four and five news a day in format video, prepared for the television in German, Arab, Spanish, English, Italian and portuguese.

The initial targets with which the channel is born are to reach in two twenties million users in the whole world, between the videos, Internet and mobile telephony and the name of the channel, H2O, the formula water chemistry, it symbolizes - as he added Hill - the purification, salvation and vitality.


(Agencies, 15/01/07)