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continents

description Mission magazine
publishing company continents Missionsverlag GmbH, Cologne
First edition 1966
Frequency of publication bi-monthly
Sold edition 165,000 copies
Editor-in-chief Beatrix Sorrowful
editor 24 worldwide active Catholic religious orders
as well as the Catholic mission organizations missio Aachen
and Missio Netherlands
Web link www.continent.org

Continents is a magazine published by 24 worldwide active Catholic religious orders , the International Catholic Missionary Organization missio Aachen and missio Netherlands. The magazine appears every two months, with a focus on German-speaking countries. The magazine was founded in Essen in 1966 . Today, with a circulation of around 165,000 copies, it is one of the denominational magazines with the highest circulation.

The magazine is published by the continents Missionsverlag GmbH in Cologne. The editorial office is based in Aachen.

Content and edition

continents reports on the life and commitment of the Catholic Church and Christians worldwide, their cultures and worlds. Continents provides information about the work of missionaries who do charitable, educational, political and pastoral work on site. The entire spectrum of universal church and missionary work is reflected in the contributions, for example: proclamation , pastoral care , development work, medical care , education , commitment to human rights , integration work and awareness-raising for global contexts.

Report topics in the recent past were the exploitation of the tea pickers in Bangladesh , the struggle for the free practice of religion in many countries, pastoral care for people in detention centers, the fight against violence against women in India and Christian life in Germany .

The German-language edition of the magazine appears in 21 issues, with the 44-page cover section being the same for all issues. The inner part is individually designed by the issuing order or missio Aachen and comprises 4, 8 or 12 pages depending on the publisher. The main area of ​​circulation is the German-speaking area (97.6% of the circulation).

history

The magazine continents emerged in 2006 from the merger of the missio -Mitgliederzeitschrift missio currently (Aachen / Munich) and the religious and missionary magazine continents (Cologne), which was then published by 25 Catholic orders Communities.

continents

As an order and mission magazine, kontenten appeared for the first time in 1966. After the Second Vatican Council , 13 orders from German-speaking Europe initially decided to publish a joint magazine. In 1968 more than 20 orders took part. Its aim was to offer readers interested in the topics of Mission and One World a professional reporting. Some orders brought traditional previous magazines to continents for this purpose . The continents principle provided that in addition to the main part of the magazine, each publisher was given separate pages, making continents the organ of each individual order.

The editors of continents , which had its seat first in Essen and later in Cologne, was for many years a team of men and women religious, the varying composition which Spiritanerpatres Klaus-Elmar Piller and John Henschel, the Missionaries of Africa Horst Hohmann, Georg Völlinger and Gerhard Knühl , the Capuchin Amandus Hasselbach, the Comboni missionary Udo Baumüller, the Mariannhiller Father Joseph Hopfgartner and the Sacred Heart missionary Franz Haböck belonged. In 1982 Harald Schmautz became the first non-religious editor. In 1992, Ludwig Ring-Eifel , today's editor-in-chief of the Catholic news agency , was appointed the first editor-in-chief. He was followed in 1995 by Franz Jussen.

Missio currently

From the amalgamation of three magazines (Christ's Empire and World Mission Aachen and Munich) of the papal work for the spread of the faith in Aachen and Munich, the color magazine MISSION aktuell was created in 1969. As a member magazine of today's aid organization missio, its content was committed to the educational mandate of the International Catholic Missionary Organization and the new understanding of mission since the Second Vatican Council. It should also help to motivate the friends and sponsors of missio to support the project work in the partner countries of the south ideally and financially.

In terms of publishing, the paper took the path of an illustrated general-interest magazine, which provided information on developments in the world church with exclusive photo reports, news and background reports from Africa, Asia and Oceania. At the same time, with topics such as the dialogue between religions and cultures, human rights and migration, the magazine always built a bridge into its own social reality. In 1990 the title was changed to missio aktuell to more clearly express the solidarity with the missionary organization missio.

fusion

The editors of both magazines and the then editor-in-chief of both magazines, Franz Jussen, with his editorial teams in Aachen and Cologne, began preparing the merger of missio aktuell and continierenden in 2003 . The decisive impetus for the merger was given by missio President and Franciscan Father Hermann Schalück. Following the merger negotiations with the Order magazine continents to missio Munich sparked the joint editorship of the members magazine and founded his own magazine. On the basis of a contract passed in 2005, the merger of the magazines under the title continents was achieved with the first issue in 2006 . Aachen became the editorial office, the continents mission publishing house remained Cologne.

The website of the magazine brings additional articles and news from the continents editors from the different issues of the magazine.

Magazine family

At the beginning of 2007 the first international edition of continents appeared under the title missio wereldwijd . The magazine published by Missio Netherlands has a circulation of around 4,000 copies in the Netherlands. The magazine has been published under the title kerk wereldwijd since 2013 .

Editors-in-chief

Editors-in-chief of continents (since the merger in 2006):

  • until October 2006: Franz Jussen
  • October 2006 - June 2012: Hildegard Mathies
  • July 2012 - March 2019: Jobst Rüthers
  • since April 2019: Beatrix Gramlich

Editors-in-chief of continents (until the merger with missio aktuell 2006):

  • 1995–2003: Franz Jussen
  • 1992–1995: Ludwig Ring-Eifel

Editors-in-chief missio aktuell (until the merger with continents in 2006):

  • 2003–2006: Franz Jussen
  • 1991-2003: Toni Goertz
  • 1989-1991: Ingelore Haepp
  • 1975–1989: Hansjosef Theyßen
  • 1969–1975: Kurt Vaessen

Awards

(for the merged journal, from 2006):

  • Best of Corporate Publishing Award in silver 2007
  • Best of Corporate Publishing Award in Silver 2008
  • Best of Corporate Publishing Award in silver 2011
  • Catholic Media Prize 2008, Special Mention for the report “The curse of the green drug” by Beatrix Gramlich
  • Kinderothilfe media award , photo category, for Hartmut Schwarzbach 2007
  • Kinderothilfe media award, photo category, for GMB Akash 2008
  • International Award for Excellence in Journalism 2010 of the Catholic World Union of the Press (UCIP) for the report "Blind Date in Guantánamo" by Franz Jussen
  • Kinderothilfe media award, photo category, for Christoph Gödan, 2010
  • Shortlist of the Henri Nannen Prize , Photo Reportage Category, for Christoph Gödan, 2010
  • Best of Corporate Publishing Award in silver 2011

literature

  • Ludwig Ring-Eifel: traveling together for 50 years . In: Continents , Vol. 51 (2016), Issue 1, pp. 20–21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b media data from December 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ Imprint in: Continents , Vol. 54 (2019), Issue 6, p. 25.
  3. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate Essen, Dept. Information / Episcopal Press Office (ed.): Our common path. 25 years of the Diocese of Essen . Edition Werry, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1982, ISBN 3-88867-019-5 , p. 235.
  4. ^ A b Ludwig Ring-Eifel: 50 years traveling together . In: Continents , Vol. 51 (2016), Issue 1, pp. 20–21, here p. 21.