SIGNIS
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SIGNIS (official name: World Catholic Association for Communication) is a Roman Catholic ecclesial movement of the Faithful 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 for
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Mission
- History
- Catholics and cinema
- OCIC's periodicals (1937–2001)
- General Secretariat – Location
- General Assemblies (World Congress) of OCIC and its international studydays
- Catholics and radio and television
- Christian Television Weeks
- Unda's periodicals (1934–2001)
- General Assemblies of BCIR and Unda
- Catholics and the press
- UCIP's periodicals
- General Assemblies of UCIP
- Catholics in radio, television, cinema, and press working together
- Catholics and media education
- Catholics and the digital world
- Presidents and secretaries general of OCIC, Unda, UCIP, and SIGNIS
- UCIP secretaries-general and presidents 1927–2011
- Unda secretaries-general and presidents 1928–2001
- OCIC secretaries-general and presidents 1928–2001
- SIGNIS secretaries-general and presidents 2001–
- Structure and activities of SIGNIS
- {{anchor|awards}}The Cinema Desk
- The TV Desk
- International SIGNIS TV desk seminars of Catholic TV producers
- The Radio Desk
- The Journalism Desk
- The Media Education Desk
- The Digital Desk
- General Assemblies and World Congresses of SIGNIS
- SIGNIS' periodicals since 2002
- Members
- SIGNIS in Africa and in the Indian Ocean Islands
- SIGNIS in Asia
- SIGNIS in Europe and the Middle East
- SIGNIS in Latin America and the Caribbean
- SIGNIS in North America
- SIGNIS in the Pacific
- SIGNIS International Members
- SIGNIS Associates
- See also
- References
- External links
SIGNIS (official name: World Catholic Association for Communication) is a Roman Catholic ecclesial movement of the Faithful 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 uppercase) is a combination of the words SIGN and IGNIS (Latin for "fire"). It is not an acronym.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SIGNIS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.