PRIZES AND AWARDS
ZENIT has received various prizes and awards.
Here is a list of some of the most significant ones, in chronological order:
-- Since it began, ZENIT has received the support of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. You can read the March 31, 1998, message to ZENIT readers written by the president of that dicastery, Archbishop John Foley.
-- And since ZENIT's first day, it has been a member of the Red Informática de la Iglesia en Ámerica Latina (Information Network of the Church in Latin America), an institution which is promoted by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and the Latin American bishops' council.
-- "Excellence in Evangelization" award in 1999, given by Envoy Magazine (USA)
-- "¡Bravo! De nuevas tecnologías" (Bravo! In New Technology) award, given in 2004 by the Spanish episcopal conference.
With the following message:
"To the ZENIT news agency, for having achieved an excellent use of information technology, especially the Internet, and for putting this technology at the service of social communications, and especially religious information, thereby achieving that the life and thought of the Church reaches multiple communication services and hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world."
-- "Thomas More" award, given by the Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción" (Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic University) - Asunción, Paraguay (January 2006) -- in the category of International Journalism.
-- "Servitor Pacis" (Servant of Peace) award, given by the Path to Peace Foundation, sponsored by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Holy See's permanent observer to the United Nations.
The Path to Peace foundation supports the work of the permanent observer mission of the Holy See to the United Nations. In the awards ceremony in New York on June 14, 2006, the foundation's representative gave this award to Jesús Colina, director of ZENIT, "in recognition of your service to the Church, spreading its teachings about peace and the dignity of the person, and efficiently covering the work of the Holy See at the United Nations."
-- "Raoul Wallenberg 2006" award, given by the "Fundación Internacional Raoul Wallenberg" (International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation), bestowed upon Jesús Colina, director of ZENIT, on Sept. 28, 2006, in recognition of "the excellence of the informative production placed at the service of interconfessional dialogue and reconciliation."
-- "Top Ten 2006" award, from Inside the Vatican magazine (January 2007).
