Facebook: Aussies 'Like' the Catholic church

Facebook: Aussies ‘Like’ the Catholic church

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Many Australians are using Facebook to find out about the Church following an advertising campaign run on the social networking site last year.

The Catholic Enquiry Centre, Australia, has received 327 inquiries from January to March this year compared with 543 for all of 2011. They also reported that Facebook advertising accounted for 33.6 per cent of responses to the centre. Continue reading

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