New representative of the Roman Catholic Church in Moscow Archbishop Paolo Pezzi has made a decision to close the Svet Evangelia (The Light of Gospel), the only Catholic weekly in Russia."Given the fact that the structure of the information activity of the diocese is changing, a decision to close the newspaper was made. It will be replaced by other information resources, which we hope will be more relevant to the present-day state of affairs," the editor-in-chief of Svet Evangelia Viktor Khrul told Interfax-Religion on Tuesday.
An editorial under the headline "We do not say farewell forever..." was published in the last issue of the newspaper on December 25. "You are holding an historic issue of the Svet Evangelia newspaper. This is the last issue. All explanations that need to be made over such things, will be made one day," the editorial reads.
The Svet Evangelia weekly was established in 1994 by Pezzi's predecessor Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, now archbishop of Minsk and Mogilyov, Belarus. Italian Priest Bernardo Antonini first came up with the idea to establish the weekly.
Reporters of the Moscow-based newspaper worked in St. Petersburg, Saratov, Sochi, Novosibirsk, Tula, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Magadan and Vladivostok.
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