Press releases & statements
Since its foundation SIGNIS has issued a number of public statements regarding world events or particular issues related to controversy or advocacy.
The greatest number of SIGNIS statements is on films which raise religious and/or moral issues that are or might become controversial.
SIGNIS has issued statements on the following films:
- Agora (2010)
- Angels and Demons (2009)
- Brideshead Revisitied and its Catholicism (2008)
- Brighton Rock (2011)
- Calvary (2014)
- Deliver Us from Evil (2007)
- Des homes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men) (2010)
- Elizabeth – The Golden Age (2007)
- Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
- Kreuzweg (Stations of the Cross) (2014)
- Les Innocentes (2017)
- Lourdes (2010)
- No greater Love (2010)
- Oranges and Sunshine (2011)
- Philomena (2014)
- Religulous (2009)
- Risen (2016)
- Silence (2016)
- Sinner (2007)
- Spotlight (2015)
- Spotlight (Statement of the Jury at the Venice Film Festival) (2015)
- The Calling (2010)
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Letters (2015)
- The Golden Compass (2007)
- The Omen (2006)
- The Rite (2011)
- The X-Files: I want to Believe (2008)
- The Young Messiah (2016)
- Risen
- Silence (2017)
- Les Innocentes (2017)
- Mary Magdalene (2018)
- La Prière/The Prayer (2018)
- Paul, the Apostle of Christ (2018)
- Jirga (2018)
Apart from these statements, SIGNIS has issued public statements related to advocacy since 2003:
- Solidarity with communicators under threat in Bolivia 2003
- Declaration of Lyon: ‘Media for a culture of Peace’ (2005)
- SIGNIS statement on the Muhammad Cartoon Controversy (2006)
- SIGNIS Calls for Support for Immediate Ceasefire in Lebanon (2006)
- Fijian Media Gagged (2009)
- Statement from SIGNIS on the 20th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Right of the Child (2009)
- SIGNIS condemns killing of Pakistani Minister and Calls for Respect for Religious Freedom (2011)
- SIGNIS condemns Paris Attacks (2015)
- World Press Freedom Day (2016)
- SIGNIS Statement on Murder of Ecuadoran Journalists (2018)
