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WACC at RCC 2010: The highlights |
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By Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC
 | | WACCglobal in collaboration with WACC North America organized a variety of events at the RCCongress 2010 held in Chicago, April 7-10.
The Congress is an international, interfaith gathering of religion communicators held every ten years, offering cutting edge skills-building workshops, challenging plenary speakers, and networking opportunities with communications professionals. It was attended by over 500 communicators. Read more...
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Witnesses to resurrection |
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A meditation on John 10:14-18
This is the resurrection season.
| | It can be gruesome business, this stubborn refusal to acquiese to the bitter finality of death. But for those of us in WACC, it is a story we have seen played out many times in many places. Shirley, Ed, Bill – as Christians and as Communicators – you are seasoned witnesses to resurrection.
Jesus sets the tone in our text this morning: “I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again...” Read more...
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WACC installs three new Honorary Life Members |
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By Erik Alsgaard, member of the WACC North America Executive Committee , reporting from Chicago
| | Three new Honorary Life Members of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) were installed Wednesday, April 7, during ceremonies held in Chicago, the site of the RCCongress 2010. WACC's General Secretary, Randy Naylor and President, Dennis Smith, conducted the ceremonies in front of more than 50 people.
Inducted were the Rev. Dr. William F. Fore, Mrs. Shirley Whipple Struchen, and the Rev. Edward B. Willingham, Jr. In addition, the Rev. Carlos Valle, a Methodist minister from Argentina, who served as WACC’s General Secretary from 1986 through 2001, was also inducted but not present in Chicago. Read more...
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Emerging global trends in religious communication |
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By WACC President, Dennis Smith
| | One of the unique privileges of forming part of a global association of communicators is to be able to witness our inter-connectedness, our inter-dependence, but also our high degree of particularity. Ours is not a single reality, but countless realities – some more inter-connected than others.
What does this mean?
It means that TV preachers in Latin America are not the product of a plot hatched in Langley, Virginia. They are their own people. They may or may not share technology, ideology, or advocacy agendas with people in Pasadena, California. But they will often be part of a sophisticated global network with power centers in Brazil, Korea, Ghana, Guatemala, the Philippines, California and Texas. Read more...
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Impact of communication technologies on religious communication |
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By Sarah Macharia, Programme Manager, WACC, reporting from Chicago
| | WACC convened a panel of global partners, April 10, to discuss the impact of communication technologies on religious communication. Panelist Rolando Perez from Peru discussed the mediatisation of religious practices in Latin America, a region which although becoming religiously diverse, remains predominantly Catholic. He presented photos of public processions, gatherings on national days and various social protests to illustrate the extent to which religion permeates all aspects of Peruvian society, including the influential social and political power held by Catholicism. Read more... |
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NABS-WACC remembers 40 years |
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By Erik Alsgaard, member of the WACC North America Executive Committee, reporting from Chicago
| | Nearly 40 people gathered in Chicago during the RCCongress 2010 to honor the memory of the North American Broadcast Section of the World Association for Christian Communication, better known by its acronym, NABS-WACC. NABS, for short, hosted an annual gathering in early December in Florida. The Rev. Ed Willingham, a Baptist minister and executive director of the Council of Churches in Detroit, was the energy and glue that held NABS together. Read more...
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Religious communication is about building community, not selling a product |
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By Rebekah Chevalier, WACC North America Vice-President 
| | As they rush to embrace new media, religion communicators need to ask themselves some crucial questions: Is religion our “business”? Is it another commodity to be traded in the open marketplace? These provocative questions were posed by Basilio Monteiro, WACC-North America Executive Committee member, at a workshop during the Religion Communicators Congress (RCC 2010) in Chicago, April 9. Read more... |
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News doesn’t mirror the world |
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By Erin Green, member of the WACC North America Executive Committee 
| | A few evocative images opened Sarah Macharia’s – presentation on the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). Now in its 4th iiteration, the project looks at gender portrayal and representation in the news. The statistics from the preliminary report tell a shocking all on their own:
- 24% of people interviewed, seen, or read in the news are female
- 18% of people heard as experts or spokespersons are female. Read more... |
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Creating Enabling Environments: Communication Rights and the MDGs |
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By Erin Green, WACC North America member 
| | The Millennium Development Goals – ratified by 189 UN countries in 2000 – are essential to eradicating poverty and a guide to meeting targets for 2015, said WACC Deputy Director of Programmes, Philip Lee, while addressing participants at a workshop on communication rights at the RCCongress 2010. While there are many critics of the MDGs, "they are being taken seriously by many governmental and non-governmental agencies. Considerable public resources are being applied to achieving them and – therefore – we need to look at the role that communication rights might play in facilitating their achievement." Read more... |
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WACC screens James Orbinski documentary at RCC2010 |
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By Philip Lee, WACC Deputy Director of programmes, reporting from Chicago
| | Participants at the Religion Communication Congress 2010 (RCC2010) viewed a WACC screening of the documentary "Triage: Dr James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma” Thursday, April 8, in Chicago. The documentary, directed by Patrick Reed and produced in 2007, depicts the real-life work of the former president of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in Somalia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read more... |
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Programme updates |
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WACC exchanges best practices with UK-based agencies |
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By Richard J. Cridlan, Programme Manager/Finance Controller, WACC-UK
| | Joyce Larko Steiner Senior Programme Manager with the Christian Council of Ghana (CCG), visited WACC in London in February 2010 to attend a meeting of the UK Advisory Committee of a WACC/DFID funded project combating stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV & AIDS (PLs). She also visited Africa Health Policy Network (AHPN) and Terence Higgins Trust, both UK agencies working in the AIDS field. The meetings were planned to learn more about the work of the UK agencies and to share lessons learned from the Council’s own work to mobilize key groups in the local community to campaign against stigma and discrimination directed towards PLs in three districts of Ghana. Read more...
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Regional News |
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Regional Executive Committee meeting - Video postcards |
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 | | Follow the links below to watch video interviews with some members who attended the Executive Committee meeting and the RCCongress 2010 in Chicago
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Pictorial News |
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 | | WACC participated in the annual Toronto based Ecumenical Communicators meeting, March 31st, to discuss social media and new communication technologies. A special online session with veteran journalist, Deborah Potter, was held during the meeting. Porter has worked as a correspondent for CBS and CNN for 16 years. Currently, she is the President and Executive Director of NewsLab, an online resource and training center for journalists. For more information, visit http://www.newslab.org/
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