•  26 Sep 2017
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•  Wawan Jehamun

            Actually, social media has made the world become global village. All people easily get informations; make relation with others and can share knowledges or ideas. In social media, people will enter unlimited space. Anyone can express him/her self or accept all sorts of news: bad or good.

             In social media, bad news is the good news. It means, the most consumed informations are bad informations. At least, killing, pornography, terrorism, and war are the top news in social media. Besides that, hoax, black campaign, and SARA issues always be the one report in social media. Hoax or SARA issues make the true be the false and the false are the true. It can make netizens disordered, confused, and hate others. They are beginning to form sides.

            This fact said us that many people have forget values of live. They don’t proclaim Jesus but proclaim wickedness. To the participants of mission conference that held by bishop’s conference of Philipines in Manila, 22thOctober 2013, Pope Francis said: “Bring Jesus into social media.”[1] This prophetic appeal is the universal invitation for all Christians to bring Jesus into social media. We can know that The Holiness have concern about the important of using social media to proclaim the Gospel.² I think, there are two implications from Pope Francis’ statement. First, remind all Christians about prophetic duty to proclaim the Kingdom of God. That nowdays social media can become an instrument for evangelization. Like written in Evangelii Nuntiandi: “If these instruments (social media, red) are used to proclaim the Gospel, it can expand region where the Gospel can heared unlimited (EN 45)”.³ Second, bring Jesus means bring positive values; bring the Gospel; bring good news (Mark.1:1). The Pope wants to aim at all Christians to goodness. The goal is clear, so that we are avoided from tendention to report hoax or SARA issues into public room, social media.

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