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Asia Region-WACC Officers and Executive Committee

	Chair Dr Samuel Meshack Gurukul Lutheran Theological College India
	Vice-Chair Rev Agustinus Sarwanto Kanisius Publishing House Indonesia
	Secretary Ms Maria Theresa N Lauron IBON Philippines, Inc. Philippines
	Treasurer Rev Judy Chan Hong Kong Christian Council Hong Kong
	Committee Ms. Naveen Qayyum Christian Conference of Asia Pakistan
	Committee Rev. Saw Mya Min Lwin Myanmar Baptist Convention Myanmar

About WACC

The origins of World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) date back to 1950 when Christian communicators from Europe and North America were seeking guidelines for the future of religious broadcasting. Several organizations sharing the same concerns eventually established WACC in 1968. Rapid developments in mass media world-wide and a concern to integrate the work of the Agency for Christian Literature Development of the World Council of Churches led to a merger in 1975. Finally, a new Constitution was approved in 1986.

WACC works for human dignity, justice and peace. It sees genuine communication as the basis for understanding and co-operation between peoples of different faiths and cultures. It promotes freedom of expression and information and the democratisation of communication.

WACC is genuinely ecumenical in its membership and communication activities. It encourages co-operation between Protestant, Orthodox and Roman Catholic communicators and challenges denominations to see the broadest possible base for their communication activities. WACC also promotes co-operation between people of other faiths and ideologies.

WACC Structure

WACC is made up of more than 800 corporate and personal members in 115 countries organised in eight Regional Associations. Its governing body is a Board of Directors to which the Regional Associations elect Officers and Directors.

WACC offers professional guidance on communication policies, interprets developments in global communications, and discusses the consequences which such developments have for churches and communities everywhere, especially in the South. WACC works towards the empowerment of women and assists the training of Christian communicators.

Asia Region-WACC is made up of more than 115 corporate members and 67 personal members in 14 countries in Asia.

Christian Principles of Communication

Information and communication are drastically changing the world we live in. Instead of establishing commonness and solidarity, public communication now tends to reinforce divisions, widen the gap between rich and poor, consolidate oppression, and distort reality in order to maintain systems of domination and subject the silenced masses to media manipulation.

Yet communication remains God's great gift to humanity, without which we cannot be truly human, reflecting 'God's image'. Nor could we enjoy living together in groups, communities and societies steeped in different cultures and different ways of life.

It is both the potential for solidarity and the threat to humanity which modern communications contain, that has prompted the members of the World Association for Christian Communication to examine their communication practices and policies on the basis of the Good News of the Kingdom.

The guidelines which follow are an expression of our common witness to Jesus Christ and to the hope He has given us through the transforming power of His own communication.

Read full principles here

Links

http://www.waccglobal.org/wacc/publications/media_development/2007_4