ROME -- Vatican TV, the world's most extensive and far-reaching church-owned broadcast network, will celebrate its 30th anniversary Friday with a series of events highlighted by special messages from Pope Francis and Giorgio Napolitano, Italy's president.
Founded by Pope John Paul II in 1983, Vatican TV is broadcast at least occasionally in an array of languages, though most programming is in English, Spanish, and French. It reaches tens of millions of viewers worldwide either directly or indirectly, through feeds to other broadcasters.
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To mark Friday's anniversary, the Vatican will host a special symposium at Rome's Foreign Press Center that will feature commentary from experts about the broadcaster's impacts, and also including the taped messages from Pope Francis and Napolitano.
Vatican TV broadcasts about 130 Vatican events live each year, along with coverage of the pope's travels abroad, and the production of documentaries. It also maintains massive archives of papal activities dating to its founding.
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