Jesús Colina (

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, 1969) is a

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journalist who was based in

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. Having previously led the

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, he currently directs the

Aleteia ''Aleteia'' is an online Catholic Church, Catholic news and information website founded in 2011/2012 by Jesús Colina via the Foundation for Evangelization through the Media. It has the approval of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications a ...

newspaper. In 1991 he was the editor of the Mexican ''Proyección Mundial'', American ''Catholic World Report'' and French ''Le Temps de l'Eglise''. From 1994, he has been the correspondent in Rome for ''Alfa y Omega'', a weekly supplement of the Spanish newspaper ''ABC''. He has also written for ''

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'' and the ''

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''. In 1997 Colina founded

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, a Catholic news agency. In 1998 he worked at the Digital Network of the Church in Latin America, RIIAL. In 2007,

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appointed Colina consultor to the

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. In 2011 he was dismissed from ZENIT by the

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in order to give the agency a more institutional identity. That same year he started working on a new project, founding ''

'', an online

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news and information website with the support of the Foundation for Evangelization through the Media. He is the current president and editorial director of ''Aleteia''. In 2006 Colina received the ''Servitor Pacis Award'' at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York for his professional contributions. In 2018 he also received the "Bravo!" award from the Spanish bishops.Jesús Colina, premiado por los obispos por fundar Aleteia: “La opinión dentro de la Iglesia es necesaria. El chisme no”
El Confidencial Digital, 23 January 2018.

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