The Vatican in French on YouTube

On December 7, 2011, the Vatican launched the French version of its video channel on YouTube, the platform for online video (www.youtube.com/vaticanfr). The Francophone “videonews” are produced in collaboration with KTO the French Catholic channel. This version completes the already existing presentations in Italian, English, German and Spanish. In a statement released on the same day, the Press Office of the Holy See remarked, “the Catholic Church once again demonstrates its commitment to the development of new technologies. They allow the Pope’s voice and teachings to reach the faithful.”  It was on January 23, 2009, after a year and a half of work, that the Vatican first launched its own YouTube video channel featuring short reports on Vatican news.