The updated website, besides having a new design and a section for journalists, will also provide contact information for Opus Dei's press officers, and offer professional material, such as press releases, and photo, video and audio archives.
Opus Dei said that people will also be able to subscribe to receive email texts written by Saint Josemaria, with the service aimed at helping readers find time to reflect upon his writings. Currently Opus Dei said its newsletter is sent to 40,000 subscribers.
“The new design is the fourth of www.opusdei.org”, said the page's technical director, José Benigno Freire, who is based in Spain. “The page began in 1996 in four languages: English, French, Italian and Spanish. Now, there are 22: among the latest languages to be incorporated are Russian, Chinese and Estonian. In the coming weeks, Arab and Hungarian will be added."
“In the website a large number of varied messages are received, that ask for spiritual counselling, name doubts or problems, or communicate the solution to cases," said Juan Narbona, the international coordinator in Rome. “A lot of people find in these pages help in finding God in their work and in their ordinary life," he added.
In 2005 the website of this institution of the Catholic Church was visited by more than three million people, with more tha 15 million pages read.
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