of OCIC with international study days on cinema as a communication instrument between human beings. 1977: Munich: World Congress with international study days on cinema as a means of human promotion and the encounter between cultures. 1980: Manilla: World Congress of OCIC with international study days on cultural and social influence of foreign films 1983: Nairobi: World Congress of OCIC with the common OCIC–Unda international study days on communication and human promotion, the challenges today – with common studydays with Unda and the keynote speech by Sean MacBride 1987: Quito: World Congress of OCIC with the common Unda–OCIC study days on culture, media and Gospel Values – with a keynote speech by the Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi 1990: Bangkok: World Congress of OCIC and Unda with study days on the new Media age and its challenge 1994: Prague: World Congress of OCIC and Unda with study days on media and human dignity 1998: Montréal: World Congress of OCIC and Unda with study days on creativity in the media sphere: spiritual opportunity 2001: Rome: World Congress of OCIC and Unda – merging into SIGNIS. Catholics and radio and television Catholic radio producers had realized by the mid-1920s that radio had become, like cinema, an important means of spreading ideas, and could therefore influence the views of millions and connect them to Christian values. Already in December 1923, the radio world was waiting for the first international move of the churches to bring religion by means of radio to "humanity". This was put forward because in the Vatican, the Pope was interested to spread the Christian message to all over the earth. The Company of Guglielmo Marconi was already involved in building a radio to transmit the "voice of the Holy Father to almost every land". It became a race against time because the Protestants had the same plans to be present in the world via the new invention which was the radio. In the US, the first Catholic stations went on the air in 1925 in Canton, Ohio; Yakima, Washington, and East St. Louis, Illinois. That same year, the Paulist Fathers established WLWL, their own radio station in New York. The aim was acquainting the public with the Catholic viewpoint of Current Affairs". Fr. Joseph MacSorley, Superior General specified this in saying that the station intended to be the "official mouthpiece of everything Catholic. We want especially to reach isolated communities