COMPANION_Second pilot copy

(This is the Letter Of Fr.Jacob Srampickal S.J.)
Dear Friend,
I am sending you by attachment the second pilot copy of COMPANION. I will send you one more pilot copy, via email, before the journal starts functioning as a fortnightly. And then on it will no more be sent online and we will have the CONTENT PAGE alone on the web site.

As you may have already noticed this fortnightly is an attempt to do a professional Christian magazine in India, for promoting Christian leadership. It particularly hopes to serve the on-going faith formation of our laity, religious and priests, in that order.

The fortnightly has support of both the CBCI and CRI, media trained personnel, theologians, sociologists, economists and other experts. The fortnightly is structured in a particular manner: 1) 3 major stories: international, national and a faith based story or a regional story of importance. Between these 3 stories theologians and other experts offer comments helping the reader to reflect and apply the significance of what is treated, on our faith-life. 2)The second part is all COLUMNS: helping the reader to understand Christian faith better so that one can live it better.

Readability or reader friendliness is one of the main characteristic of this fortnightly as all the articles are done in journalese, and not in the format of essays, papers or news reports. One cannot compare it with existing news magazines of the Christians either, as this is not a News magazine (though there are two pages of select news).


May I request you to share in our passion and request your friends and communities to subscribe to this new venture. If you do so, you certainly are contributing to faith formation in India, using the media.

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COMPANION

For subscriptions contact: leejos2@gmail.com


-News and Photoes by Jacob Srampickal sj, Communications Studies, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.
(Consulting Editor)