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Massacre film gets human rights award

10 Sep 2007

Edinburgh, Scotland - The WACC-SIGNIS joint award for a film dealing with human rights has gone to A Massacre Foretold, by Scottish director Nick Higgins. The award was presented by Peter Malone (SIGNIS) and Philip Lee (WACC) during the conferen...

Congress venue confirmed

10 Sep 2007

The venues for Congress 2008 programme events have been confirmed following a site visit by WACC’s General Secretary and members of staff responsible for organizing the global communicators event. The conference is scheduled to be held in Cape T...

WACC/SIGNIS European Television Festival

6 Aug 2007

Kristiansand, 20 May 2007Programmes from France, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Ireland were the prizewinners today at the WACC/SIGNIS European Television Festival of Religious Programmes, held at the Gimlekollen Institute in Kristiansand, N...

WACC to co-sponsor the International Women Summit on HIV & AIDS

28 Jun 2007

From the 4th to the 7th of July 2007, The World YWCA, in partnership with the International Community of Women Living...

WACC to co-sponsor the International Women Summit on HIV & AIDS

From the 4th to the 7th of July 2007, The World YWCA, in partnership with the International Community of Women Living...

Canadian Church Press 50th Anniversary Celebration

11 Jun 2007

By Kristine Greenaway The World Association for Christian Communication was a co-sponsor of the joint Canadian Church Press and Association of Roman Catholic Communicators of Canada conference, Witness to the Word Anniversary Convention, held...

WACC announces second keynote speaker for Congress 2008: Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng, women’s rights advocate from Uganda

30 Apr 2007

Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng La version française suit Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng is the Executive Director of Isis-Women’s I...

Project in the Dominican Republic will train leaders of Haitian workers to advocate for human rights

22 Apr 2007

By Kristine Greenaway March 27, 2007 -- Leaders of associations of Hai_tian migrant workers and refugees living in the border region between Haiti and the Dominican Republic will soon be learning how to use alternative and mainstream media t...

U.S. postal rate hike threatens small publications

18 Apr 2007

Philip Lee, WACC, Canada. 17 April 2007. The U.S. Post Office is in the process of implementing a radical reformulation of its rates for magazines, such that smaller periodicals will be hit with a much larger increase than the largest magazin...

Egyptian documentary asks: Are bombings suicide or martyrdom?

5 Apr 2007

Toronto, 30 March (ENI)--A Christian Coptic organization in Egypt is set to release a television documentary in which Arab Muslims are asked whether those who die carrying out bombings and kidnappings have committed suicide or are martyrs. P...