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1566/ Cardinal Ghislieri was elected pope as Pius V. He was a great friend of St. Francis Borgia and appointed Salmeron and Toletus as apostolic preachers at the Vatican. He imposed the office of choir on the Society.

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Fifty years of television and media production in Taiwan

Kuangchi Program Service and the Guanachi Cultural Group, the radio-TV production center and the publishing house of the Jesuits of Taiwan, celebrated 50 years of service to evangelization. In 1958 Fr. Philip Bourret, S.J., an American Jesuit who had foreseen the great prospects mass media held in terms of social progress and evangelization, founded the Kuangchi Recording Studio (today Kuangchi Program Service), for the production of radio and TV programs. Taiwan television technology was then quite primitive, especially Catholic TV. Kuangchi began doing radio programs and building the technical capacity of what has become one of the largest production centers in the country. In 1961, ‘Kuangchi Cultural Audiovisual Program Service' registered as a not-for-profit organization under Taiwan's Ministry of Education. Its mission was to be a media production center dedicated to training professional broadcasting personnel and producing programs beneficial to society.

In the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the evangelization of Taiwan, the department of social communications of the Bishop Conference of Taiwan has asked the Kuangchi program Service to prepare a series of multimedia products (DVDs and CDs) for the apostolate of evangelization. Kuangchi Program Service's productions have received numerous prizes for excellence, such as Taiwan's coveted Golden Horse and Golden Bell awards. Among them are KPS' science series-Summit and Mr. Science & Miss Technology; KPS' children's series-Remarkable Professor, Popcorn, and House Angels; and KPS' documentary film on Cambodian refugees-Beyond the Killing Fields.

In half a century the people of Kuangchi Program Service and Guanachi Cultural Group have made a noteworthy contribution to social, cultural and religious education following the principles of truth, goodness and beauty.