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Fr. Giulio Albanese is the recipient of the “Angelo Narducci” award for 2016
Monday, July 18, 2016
The “Angelo Narducci” award for 2016 has been granted to the Comboni Missionary Fr. Giulio Albanese and will be handed to him at Lerici, Italy on Wednesday, August 3 in the course of the “Avvenire” festival. This yearly award is given by “Avvenire,” the diocese of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato and the parish of Lerici to a distinguished member of the Catholic world who has particularly excelled in the field of journalism and communication. The award’s name commemorates an historical director of “Avvenire” during the paper’s early days in the 1970s, Angelo Narducci who died prematurely in 1984.
Fr. Giulio Albanese is due to be publicly interviewed by Alessandro Zaccuri, a journalist with “Avvenire.” But who is this recipient?
Fr. Giulio, born in Rome in 1959, was for years the director of a center of missionary information in Nairobi, Kenya and in 1997 he founded the Missionary Service News Agency (MISNA), an important news wire service dedicated to missions.
Currently he cooperates with various publications on topics related to Africa and the South of the world, chief among them “Avvenire,” “Vita”, Vatican Radio and the RAI newscasts. Since February 2007 he has been teaching mission journalism and alternative journalism at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, beside being director of the Pontifical Mission Organization magazines “Missio Italia,” Popoli e Missione,” and “Il Ponte d’Oro.” These publications are well known to the faithful because they are circulated by diocesan mission offices, especially in October, the “mission month.”
Fr. Giulio has also authored a number of books on missionary topics. He is the recipient of eleven newspapers awards and four literary awards. Among these we mention il “Premiolino” (Milan, 2001), the “Saint-Vincent” (Rome 2002), “Città di Latina” (Latina 2004) and Città di Melfi (Melfi 2004).
Fr. Albanese has amassed a large reservoir of experience in the missionary field and, during this jubilee year, the assignment to him of this award, so intimately connected with the “Avvenire” festival, acquires a particular significance. At the evening gathering in Lerici on August 3, all this will be highlighted in an adequate and useful way for everyone to see.
Fr. Giulio Albanese with Pope Francis.