What is the Good News?

According to Wikipedia:

The Good News In Christianity, the gospel or evangelium (also translated as "good news", "glad tidings" and variants) is the message of Jesus, the Christ (the Messiah), specifically his atoning death on the cross and resurrection, the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost as "helper" (paraclete), and the resulting promise and hope of salvation for the faithful.

Good News is the English translation of the Koine Greek ευαγγέλιον (euangelion). The Greek term was Latinized as evangelium, and translated into Latin as bona annuntiatio. In Old English, it was translated as gōdspel (gōd "good" + spel "news").
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“Many Christians, I believe, grant the importance of evangelization in theory but shy away from it in practice. Very often, I suspect, they have a narrow and inadequate conception of the meaning of the term.  Perhaps they are put off by certain styles of evangelism. Sectarian  Protestantism, they often feel, uses methods that are far too aggressive; often it settles for merely verbal or emotional responses in which
people profess an experience of Christ as their personal savior.”

Cardinal Avery Dulles

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Year of St. Paul
“Dear brothers and sisters, as in early times, today too Christ needs apostles ready to sacrifice themselves. He needs witnesses and martyrs like St. Paul. Paul, a former violent persecutor of Christians, when he fell to the ground dazzled by the divine light on the road to Damascus, did not hesitate to change sides to the Crucified One and followed him without second thoughts. He lived and worked for Christ, for him he suffered and died. How timely his example is today!”
~ Pope Benedict XVI, June 28, 2007
First Vespers of the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul
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