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Portrait of vanishing Turkey wins two awards at Berlin film festival |
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Friday, 05 March 2010 21:55 |
| | The Ecumenical Jury at the 60th Berlinale awarded its Competition prize to Bal (Honey) directed by Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey/Germany, 2010). The International Jury also gave the film its coveted Golden Bear. A splendid portrait of the poet as a young child, Bal tells the story of the blossoming of the sensibility in a rural boy, Yusuf, living in the highlands of northeast Turkey. Immersed in a forest of overwhelming beauty, Yusuf´s life points to a connection with nature that provides not only material subsistence but spiritual learning, highlighting issues such as family love and involvement in the community. Read more...
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Communication is central to Church and related organizations |
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Sunday, 19 July 2009 22:14 |
 | | WACC’s Vice-President, Praxedis Bouwman, has reiterated that communication is an essential part of every aspect of a church organisation and must occupy a central position. Praxedis, also a member of the WACC Europe Regional Executive Committee, was addressing some 40 participants at an intense discussion about "what communication is and its position within churches”. The hearing called “Communication as a spider in the web called church” was held at the 13th Assembly of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) organised by WACC Europe, in Lyon France, 15-20 July. For more details, visit this blog… |
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WACC Board member in UK interviewed by BBC |
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Friday, 17 July 2009 19:00 |
By Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC  | | Sara Speicher, a member of the WACC Europe Regional Executive Committee and WACC’s Board of Directors, was among a panel of experts interviewed yesterday by BBC Radio Wales, for a Sunday programme dubbed "All Things Considered".
In the interview, Roy Jenkins, “looks at the digital revolution which we're all living through” in the theme Christianity in the Digital age. |
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WACC Europe produces first regional newsletter |
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Friday, 10 July 2009 18:37 |
By Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC
 | | WACC-Europe has produced the first regional newsletter, Meeting Point, aimed at connecting the European personal and corporate members of WACC. The Regional Chair, Rev Juha Rajamäki, says the newsletter is a tool to inform members about networks, events and resources. |
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In memoriam Wim Koole (1929-2009) |
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 15:16 |
By Philip Lee, Deputy Director of Program, WACC  | | Wim Koole, who died on Easter Sunday, 12 April, was one of the earliest Honorary Life Members of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC). In the course of a long life dedicated to his belief in Christian principles of communication, Wim was a pioneer in many aspects of audiovisual work, loyally serving his own company, IKON, and WACC’s European Regional Association. |
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WACC Speaks to Europe Parliamentary Committee on Media and Gender |
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Friday, 20 March 2009 15:33 |
By Lavinia Mohr, Director of Programmes, WACC
 | | "Combating sexist stereotypes in the media” is the subject of public hearing of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men which takes place in Paris on 24 March 2009.
At the hearing, the findings of the 2005 Global Media Monitoring Project will be presented by Lavinia Mohr, WACC’s Director of Programmes. |
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NGOs’ preparatory Forum |
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Friday, 13 March 2009 14:51 |
 | | NGOs’ preparatory Forum to the Conference of Ministers in Charge of the Media and New Communication Services will be held at the CoE’s seat in Paris, 55, avenue Kléber, Paris 16ème, Tuesday, 5th May 2009, 9.30 – 18.00 |
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INTERFILM in Venice for the first time |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 16:41 |
By Philip Lee, Deputy Director of Programmes, WACC
 | | INTERFILM will be officially present at the Mostra del Cinema, the International Film Festival in Venice, in 2008. During the festival INTERFILM, together with its Italian partner organisation, Associazione protestante Cinema ‘Roberta Sbaffi’, will organize two panel discussions. Both are intended to promote cinema as platform for intercultural and interreligious dialogue by exploring the complex relations between film art, cultures and societies. |
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Churches of 40 countries give witness for Mid-East peace |
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 10:39 |
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World Council of Churches
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Desmond Tutu: "Caring and compassion will prevail over evil and injustice" |
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Monday, 26 May 2008 16:31 |
 | | Evil, injustice, oppression, all of those awful things, they are not going to have the last word. Goodness, laughter, joy, caring, compassion, the things that you do and you help others do, those are going to prevail," said Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Geneva May 20.
The South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate was addressing ecumenical officers of churches from all over the world as well as staff from ecumenical organizations headquartered at Geneva's ecumenical centre. |
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Regional ContactsChair
Rev Juha Rajamäki
Finland Vice-Chair
Luca Negro
Switzerland/Italy
Secretary
Marion Klaseie
Norway
Treasurer
Pauline Mumia
Switzerland
Members
Praxedis Bouwman
Netherlands
Stephen Brown
Switzerland
Nicolae Dascalu
Romania
Silke Römhild
Germany Sara Speicher
United Kingdom
Danielle Vergniol
France
Juha Kinanen
Finland
Mr Meelis Süld
Estonia Staff Liaison
María Teresa Aveggio (Aguirre)
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