1. WORLD COMMUNICATION DAY 2015 By Mr. Allah Dad Khan
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2. The Vatican City Dominated by St. Peter's Basilica and its
embracing colonnade, Vatican City covers 108.7 acres [44 hectares]
on a site known to ancient Romans as Mons Vaticanus. Popes lost
political power over Rome and the surrounding Papal States with the
unification of Italy (1861-70) but remained in residence as
self-styled prisoners of the Vatican. Mussolini's government
recognized Vatican City as an independent state in the 1929 Lateran
Treaty. Operating its own bank, post office, pharmacy, and
commissary, Vatican City employs nearly 2,000 people, mostly lay
workers from Rome, and counts about 300 residents.
3. World Communication Day The World Day of Social
Communications is celebrated in almost all countries on the Sunday
before Pentecost. The announcement comes on the eve of 24 January,
the feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron of journalists, and the
day on which the message traditionally is released
4. What is it? World Communications Day was established by Pope
Paul VI in 1967 as an annual celebration that encourages us to
reflect on the opportunities and challenges that the modern means
of social communication (the press, motions pictures, radio,
television and the internet) afford the Church to communicate the
gospel message.
5. Where did it come from? The celebration came in the wake of
the Second Vatican Council, which realised it must engage fully
with the modern world. This realisation is expressed in the opening
statement of the Pastoral ConstitutionGaudium et spes on The Church
in the Modern World, which says: The joys and the hopes, the griefs
and the anguishes of the people of our time, especially of those
who are poor or afflicted in any way, are the joys and the hopes,
the griefs and the anguishes of the followers of Christ as
well.
6. Why it is celebrated every year? In setting it up on Sunday
7th May 1967, less than two years after the Second Vatican Council,
Pope Paul VI, knowing that the Church is truly and intimately
linked with mankind and its history, wanted to draw attention to
the communications media and the enormous power they have for
cultural transformation. He and his successors have consistently
recognised the positive opportunities the communications media
afford for enriching human lives with the values of truth, beauty
and goodness, but also the possibly negative effects of spreading
less noble values and pressurising minds and consciences with a
multiplicity
7. Message( 49th World day of communication 24th January 2015)
In a world where people often curse, use foul language, speak badly
of others, sow discord and poison our human environment by gossip,
the family can teach us to understand communication as a blessing,
the Pope writes. In situations apparently dominated by hatred and
violence, where families are separated by stone walls or the no
less impenetrable walls of prejudice and resentment, where there
seem to be good reasons for saying enough is enough, it is only by
blessing rather than cursing, by visiting rather than repelling,
and by accepting rather than fighting, that we can break the spiral
of evil, show that goodness is always possible, and educate our
children to fellowship.
8. THEMES OF WORLD COMMUNICATION DAY SINCE !967 TO -----
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9. Pope Paul VI WCD YEAR WCD THEME FOR THE YEAR 1 1967 Church
and Social Communication: First World Communication Day 2 1968
Social Communications and the Development of Nations 3 1969 Social
Communications and the Family 4 1970 Social Communications and
Youth 5 1971 The role of Communications Media in promoting unity
among men 6 1972 The Media of Social Communications at the Service
of Truth 7 1973 The Mass Media and the Affirmation and Promotion of
Spiritual Values
10. 8 1974 Social Communications and Evangelization in Today's
World 9 1975 The Mass Media and Reconciliation 10 1976 Social
Communications and the Fundamental Rights and Duties of Man 11 1977
Advertising in the Mass Media: Benefits, Dangers, Responsibilities
12 1978 The receiver in Social Communications: his expectations,
his rights and his duties
11. Pope John Paul II WCD YEAR WCD THEME FOR THE YEAR 13 1979
Social Communications: Protecting the Child and promoting his best
interest in the family and in society 14 1980 Social Communications
and Family 15 1981 Social Communications and Responsible Human
Freedom 16 1982 Social Communications and the Problems of the
Elderly 17 1983 Social Communications and the Promotion of Peace 18
1984 Social Communication: Instruments of Encounter Between Faith
and Culture
12. 19 1985 Social Communications for a Christian Promotion of
Youth 20 1986 Social Communications and the Christian Formation of
Public Opinion 21 1987 Social Communications at the Service of
Justice and Peace 22 1988 Social Communications and the Promotion
of Solidarity and Fraternity Between People and Nations 23 1989
Religion in the Mass Media 24 1990 The christian message in a
computer culture 25 1991 The Communications media and the unity and
progress of the human family 26 1992 The proclamation of Christ's
Message in the Communications Media 27 1993 Videocassettes and
audiocassettes in the formation of culture and of conscience 28
1994 Television and family: guidelines for good viewing
13. 30 1996 The Media: Modern Forum for Promoting the Role of
Women in Society 31 1997 Communicating Jesus: The Way, the Truth
and the Life 32 1998 Sustained by the Spirit, communicate hope 33
1999 Mass media: a friendly companion for those in search of the
Father 34 2000 Proclaiming Christ in the Media at the Dawn of the
New Millennium 35 2001 Preach from the housetops: The Gospel in the
Age of Global Communication 36 2002 Internet: A New Forum for
Proclaiming the Gospel 37 2003 The Communications Media at the
Service of Authentic Peace in the Light of "Pacem in Terris" 38
2004 The Media and the family: A Risk and a Richness 39 2005 The
Communications Media: At the Service of Understanding Among
Peoples
14. Pope Benedict XVI WCD YEAR WCD THEME FOR THE YEAR 40 2006
The Media: A Network for Communication, Communion and Cooperation
41 2007 Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education 42 2008
The Media: At the Crossroads between Self- Promotion and Service.
Searching for the Truth in order to Share it with Others. 43 2009
New Technologies, New Relationships, Promoting a Culture of
Respect, Dialogue and Friendship 44 2010 The Priest and Pastoral
Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word
45 2011 Truth, Proclamation and Authenticity of Life in the Digital
Age 46 2012 Silence and Word: Path of Evangelization 47 2013 Social
Networks: Portals of Truth and Faith; New Paces for
Evangelization
15. Pope Francis WCD YEAR WCD THEME FOR THE YEAR 48 2014
Communication at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter
49 2015 Communicating the Family: A Privileged Place of Encounter
with the Gift of Love