POPE FRANCIS AMONG THE TEN KEY MEN OF THE YEAR 2013 FOR JOURNALISTS OF CHINA PRESS INTERNATIONAL FORUMS

Pope Francis was elected to the group of the ten “key men of the year 2013 ‘by 50 representatives of the media, journalists’ associations and diplomatic relations between the most important of mainland China. According to information gathered by Fides, choice, an open vote, took place during the fifteenth “China International Press Forum”, which took place on December 15 in Hainan. The news was made ​​public on December 24 and reported by all the Chinese media. Papa Francesco occupies the third place among the 10 most important men in the world in 2013, which include the President of Iran Rohani, Russian President Putin, the former Egyptian President Morsi, the former South African President Nelson Mandela. So far no religious personality, nor the Pope, had never appeared in the annual ranking by the “China International Press Forum”.