Digital media

Pope Leo XIV has urged Catholic communicators to ensure that digital media remains at the service of humanity, calling for communication rooted in truth, human dignity, peace, and care for creation as the first SIGNIS World Congress to be held in Africa opened in Rwanda.

The digital economy is not coming; it is here. We work, shop, learn, and even worship through screens. What started as convenient has become essential, reshaping how we live, spend, and relate to one another.

The blue light flickers across her small face as she swipes through another video. You call her name twice before she looks up, eyes still glazed from the digital world she’s been swimming in.

“We want to reach out to young people, most of whom are in the digital space. That is why this training was held for young sisters so that they can proclaim the Good News in the language of young people,” explained Sr. Emmanuella CB

To make the Church more accessible, bishops learned new presentation methods.

"Let us be vigilant about the pitfalls of digital communication, but not be deterred by them,"  Bishop Sebastian Francis

Pope Francis says SIGNIS “can play an important role” in meeting the challenge of “toxicity, hate speech, and fake news” in the media.