Who are the popular non-English-speaking apologists and which are the non-American apologetic ministries today?

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Catholic Answers, The Journey Home, Dave Armstrong, Scott Hahn etcetera, are outstanding apologists in the English language and for a largely North American audience. I have no doubt that many of the resources they produce end up translated into many languages. But who are the apologists, where are the Catholic street-evangelists, where are the Catholic apologetic ministries of Mexico, of Central/South America, of Europe, of Asia? What pamphlets or books or websites are being made extant among French, Swiss, German, Mexican, Peruvian, Chinese, or Filipino peoples, both to strengthen and embolden the faith of practicing Catholics and to answer the tough questions–oft-times different from those which I might, as an American, ask–which are raised in those other nations and/or cultures? If the Church is in decline in many places, isn’t this in part b/c we are not, as a Church, raising up speakers and writers in many countries, addressing tough questions in ways which are popularly understandable & relevant?
 
Goodness, the world’s largest Catholic apologetic webforum certainly has a lot of chirping crickets today.
 
Graduate of Brooklyn University, a staffmember at Catholic Answers, apparently living and working in the United States . . . . how does this answer my question? This is not a European, Catholic apologist, operating a apologetic ministry in Europe. Nor a South American nor Asian or whatever native Catholic apologist, conducting apologetic outreach in their own language, to their own people. And: I’m speaking of “popular apologists”, people specifically conducting ministries or writing books or running websites oriented specifically to that sub-branch of theology designed to defend the Christian and Catholic faith against the common and widespread assaults, misapprehensions, and myths prevelant in their particular millieu, with an eye to demonstrating that Catholic faith is not only reasonable but worthy to be embraced. What the Catholic Answers radio hosts often deem “Apologetics 101”. (I’d love to see more "Apologetics 201, 301, 401, 501, and 601–but they say that doesn’t play well on radio).
 
I don’t know of any “foreign forums”–part of the point of this thread. Moreover, I don’t know any foreign languages, at least none sufficiently to understand a topic so complex as Christian apologetics. On t’other hand: I don’t speak whatever language St. Augustine or St. Francis de Sales or St. Thomas Aquinas or other apologists of historic note happened to use in their apologetic outreach: they’ve been translated into English. I assume that at least SOME of the contemporary popular American, English-speaking apologists have been translated into languages which Karl Keating, Dave Armstrong, Scott Hahn, etcetera have not themselves mastered. I’d think we’d at least know names of non-American Catholic apologists? I know there are Protestant & Islamic evangelists working their hearts out, often at the expense of the RCC. Between rampant secularism, Islamic proselytisting and Protestant sectarian evangelizing, I would think European fields “white for harvest”. Again–why no Catholic apologists?
 
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