1. 1. WORLD COMMUNICATION DAY 2015 By Mr. Allah Dad Khan allahdad52@gmail.com
2. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 8. THEMES OF WORLD COMMUNICATION DAY SINCE !967 TO ----- ----
9. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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