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November, December 2001

Jesuit Communications Foundation in Manila recently won top honors in the Philippines' prestigious annual Catholic Media Awards.  JCF got the prize for Best MTV for their production of "Pananagutan," a song by Fr. E. Hontiveros, SJ.  The MTV was shot by Sherman So, directed by David Hucom and edited by edited by Jay Halili.  They also took the prize for Best Radio Program in Counseling and Public Service for "Pasakalye," produced for Radio Veritas by two Jesuit scholastics, Emmanuel Alfonso, SJ and Francis Alvarez, SJ.

Members of Catholic communications organizations from throughout the world met in Rome during November to form the new international Catholic media organization, SIGNIS (which now replaces Unda and OCIC).  JESCOMEAO Special Assistant, Mr. Augustine Loorthusamy was elected Vice President of SIGNIS.

Indonesian Jesuit Fr. Alex  Soesilo is now the Secretary of the Indonesian Bishops Conference's Commission for Social Communication. One of his first objectives is to establish an electronic news service for the Conference.

Fr. Ruedi Hofmann is now in Portugal, recovering from a leg injury last year and learning Portuguese.  He plans to return to East Timor by Easter.   He will then be able to assist the East Timorese Church in printing and broadcasting projects.

Greetings from Jerry Martinson, SJ
Kuangchi Program Service, P.O. Box 108-108, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Tel:  886-2-27712136 ext. 202, Fax: 886-2-27712246