World Catholic Association for Communication | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-16

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGNIS


00:02:40 1 Mission
00:03:45 2 History
00:09:14 2.1 Catholics and Cinema
00:33:41 2.2 Catholics and Radio and Television
00:41:30 3 Christian Television weeks
00:43:11 4 Unda's periodicals (1934-2001)
00:44:58 5 General Assemblies of BCIR and Unda
00:48:05 5.1 Catholics and the Press
00:56:52 6 UCIP's periodicals
00:57:40 7 General Assemblies of UCIP
01:00:39 7.1 Catholics in Radio, Television, Cinema and Press working together
01:03:58 7.2 Catholics and Media Education
01:06:49 7.3 Catholics and the Digital World
01:13:12 8 Presidents and secretaries general of OCIC, Unda, UCIP and SIGNIS
01:13:28 8.1 UCIP secretary-generals and presidents 1927-2011
01:15:03 8.2 Unda secretary-generals and presidents 1928-2001
01:17:43 8.3 OCIC secretary-generals and presidents 1928-2001
01:19:23 8.4 SIGNIS secretary-generals and presidents 2001-
01:20:33 9 Structure and activities of SIGNIS
01:21:51 9.1 The Cinema desk
01:25:28 9.2 The TV desk
01:28:03 10 International SIGNIS TV desk seminars of Catholic TV producers
01:30:40 10.1 The Radio desk
01:31:50 10.2 The Journalist desk
01:33:24 10.3 The Media Education desk
01:34:32 10.4 The Digital desk
01:35:29 11 General Assemblies and World Congresses of SIGNIS
01:37:32 12 SIGNIS'periodicals since 2002
01:44:02 13 Members 2017
01:44:12 13.1 SIGNIS in Africa and in the Indian Ocean Islands
01:44:30 13.2 SIGNIS in Asia
01:44:44 13.3 SIGNIS in Europe and the Middle East
01:45:00 13.4 SIGNIS in Latin America and the Caribbean
01:45:16 13.5 SIGNIS in North America
01:45:30 13.6 SIGNIS in the Pacific
01:45:43 13.7 SIGNIS International Members
01:45:57 13.8 SIGNIS Associates



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SIGNIS (official name: World Catholic Association for Communication) is a Roman Catholic lay ecclesial movement for professionals in the communication media, including press, radio, television, cinema, video, media education, internet and new technology.  It is a non-profit organization with representation from over 100 countries. It was formed in November 2001 by the merger of International Catholic Organization for Cinema and Audiovisual (OCIC) and International Catholic Association for Radio and Television (Unda). At its World Congress in Quebec in 2017, SIGNIS welcomed also former member organisations of the International Catholic Union of the Press (UCIP).
The word SIGNIS (always in upper case) is a combination of the words SIGN and IGNIS (Latin for fire). It is not an acronym.The Holy See has officially recognized SIGNIS as an International Association of the Faithful, and has included the "World Catholic Association for Communication, also known as SIGNIS" in its Directory of International Associations of the Faithful, published by the Pontifical Council for the Laity. Before the dissolution of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, the governing body of SIGNIS included a representative of this pontifical council, another department of the Roman Curia. OCIC, Unda and SIGNIS had also members and consultors in the Pontifical Council of Social Communications. in June 2015 Pope Francis established a new dicastery of the Roman Curia with authority over all communications offices of the Holy See and the Vatican City State, including the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Holy See Press Office, Vatican Internet Service, Vatican Radio, Vatican Television Center, Osservatore Romano, Vatican Press (it), Photograph Service, and Vatican Publishing House. A representative of this new Secretariat for Communications is part of the governing body of SIGNIS.
SIGNIS has consultative status with UNESCO, the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, in Geneva and New York City and the Council of Europe.