A woman for the “Herald”

She will give a woman’s touch, with tenderness and creativity, to a publication that is a pillar of communication for the Church in Malaysia: Patricia Pereira, 56, who has taken on the responsibility for the magazine since 1 July as the Editor of the “Herald”, the nation’s historic Catholic weekly, which, born in Kuala Lumpur in 1994, soon established itself as the magazine of the country’s Catholic community, characterized both by ecclesial information, and by the fruitful — and sometimes heated — dialogue with the world, with society and politics. Led until the first of July by Jesuit Fr Lawrence Andrew, the weekly publication is taking a turn and has now been entrusted by the Bishops’ Conference to a woman, a Catholic lay person, who brings to it experience matured in the field of business communications and public relations. Pereira ...