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Pope Leo XIV Visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center

Pope Leo XIV visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center outside of Rome, Italy on June 19, 2025. On the anniversary of his priestly ordination, Pope Leo XIV visited Santa Maria di Galeria, in the extraterritorial zone where the shortwave transmission center of Vatican Radio, part of the Dicastery for Communication, is located. He met with the staff of the center, conversed with them, visited the transmitter hall designed by architect Pier Luigi Nervi, and sat in the control room for shortwave transmissions. The Radio Center was inaugurated by Pope Pius XII in 1957, and the last time a Pope visited the Center and the area of Santa Maria di Galeria, was when Pope St. John Paul II did so in 1991. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center

Pope Leo XIV visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center outside of Rome, Italy on June 19, 2025. On the anniversary of his priestly ordination, Pope Leo XIV visited Santa Maria di Galeria, in the extraterritorial zone where the shortwave transmission center of Vatican Radio, part of the Dicastery for Communication, is located. He met with the staff of the center, conversed with them, visited the transmitter hall designed by architect Pier Luigi Nervi, and sat in the control room for shortwave transmissions. The Radio Center was inaugurated by Pope Pius XII in 1957, and the last time a Pope visited the Center and the area of Santa Maria di Galeria, was when Pope St. John Paul II did so in 1991. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center

Pope Leo XIV visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center outside of Rome, Italy on June 19, 2025. On the anniversary of his priestly ordination, Pope Leo XIV visited Santa Maria di Galeria, in the extraterritorial zone where the shortwave transmission center of Vatican Radio, part of the Dicastery for Communication, is located. He met with the staff of the center, conversed with them, visited the transmitter hall designed by architect Pier Luigi Nervi, and sat in the control room for shortwave transmissions. The Radio Center was inaugurated by Pope Pius XII in 1957, and the last time a Pope visited the Center and the area of Santa Maria di Galeria, was when Pope St. John Paul II did so in 1991. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center

Pope Leo XIV visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center outside of Rome, Italy on June 19, 2025. On the anniversary of his priestly ordination, Pope Leo XIV visited Santa Maria di Galeria, in the extraterritorial zone where the shortwave transmission center of Vatican Radio, part of the Dicastery for Communication, is located. He met with the staff of the center, conversed with them, visited the transmitter hall designed by architect Pier Luigi Nervi, and sat in the control room for shortwave transmissions. The Radio Center was inaugurated by Pope Pius XII in 1957, and the last time a Pope visited the Center and the area of Santa Maria di Galeria, was when Pope St. John Paul II did so in 1991. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center

Pope Leo XIV visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center outside of Rome, Italy on June 19, 2025. On the anniversary of his priestly ordination, Pope Leo XIV visited Santa Maria di Galeria, in the extraterritorial zone where the shortwave transmission center of Vatican Radio, part of the Dicastery for Communication, is located. He met with the staff of the center, conversed with them, visited the transmitter hall designed by architect Pier Luigi Nervi, and sat in the control room for shortwave transmissions. The Radio Center was inaugurated by Pope Pius XII in 1957, and the last time a Pope visited the Center and the area of Santa Maria di Galeria, was when Pope St. John Paul II did so in 1991. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center

Pope Leo XIV visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center outside of Rome, Italy on June 19, 2025. On the anniversary of his priestly ordination, Pope Leo XIV visited Santa Maria di Galeria, in the extraterritorial zone where the shortwave transmission center of Vatican Radio, part of the Dicastery for Communication, is located. He met with the staff of the center, conversed with them, visited the transmitter hall designed by architect Pier Luigi Nervi, and sat in the control room for shortwave transmissions. The Radio Center was inaugurated by Pope Pius XII in 1957, and the last time a Pope visited the Center and the area of Santa Maria di Galeria, was when Pope St. John Paul II did so in 1991. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center

Pope Leo XIV visits Vatican Radio Transmission Center outside of Rome, Italy on June 19, 2025. On the anniversary of his priestly ordination, Pope Leo XIV visited Santa Maria di Galeria, in the extraterritorial zone where the shortwave transmission center of Vatican Radio, part of the Dicastery for Communication, is located. He met with the staff of the center, conversed with them, visited the transmitter hall designed by architect Pier Luigi Nervi, and sat in the control room for shortwave transmissions. The Radio Center was inaugurated by Pope Pius XII in 1957, and the last time a Pope visited the Center and the area of Santa Maria di Galeria, was when Pope St. John Paul II did so in 1991. Photo by (EV) Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Satellite Image Shows Mount Etna Spewing Lava From Above

Handout photo dated June 2, 2025, shows The Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite acquired an image of the area at 09:40 UTC, just minutes after the onset of the eruption. On the left, the natural colour image clearly depicts a dense ash plume in the summit crater area, partially obscured by a pyrocumulus cloud drifting westward towards inland Sicily. On the right, a false colour composite using shortwave infrared channels reveals the intense thermal signature of active lava flows descending into the Valle del Bove. Jaw-dropping satellite images shows Mount Etna erupting. At 11:24 am local time on 2 June, the most active volcano in Europe produced a spectacular eruption, propelling a dense column of ash and smoke several kilometres into the atmosphere. According to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), the eruption originated from the South East Crater, one of the most active summit vents in recent years. The event was characterised by vigorous Strombolian activity, lava effusion, and a

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Fifth World Photonics Congress 2024 in Beijing

BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 25, 2024 - Visitors visit the "HD shortwave Infrared Camera" at the "5th World PhotonicCongress 2024" in Beijing, China, July 25, 2024.

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Armed Police Communication Training in Nanning

NANNING, CHINA - APRIL 9, 2024 - Armed police officers use a shortwave radio to send and receive messages in Nanning, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, April 9, 2024.

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Japanese minister vows to rescue abductees

SEOUL, South Korea - Jin Matsubara (R), Japanese minister in charge of addressing the abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s, records a message at a radio station in Seoul on April 22, 2012, for a shortwave program of Free North Korea Radio, which is run by defectors from North Korea. In the message he vowed that Japan will make ''all-out efforts to rescue abductees as soon as possible.''

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Gov't issues unprecedented order for NHK to focus on abductions

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga heads to his office in Tokyo on Nov. 10 to issue an unprecedented and controversial order for Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) to air programs focusing on North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals on its shortwave radio service.

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Gov't issues unprecedented order for NHK to focus on abductions

TOKYO, Japan - Genichi Hashimoto, chairman of Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK), fields questions from reporters after Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga issued an unprecedented and controversial order for NHK to air programs focusing on North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals on its shortwave radio service.

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Panel OKs ministerial order for NHK to focus on reporting abductions

TOKYO, Japan - Telecom minister Yoshihide Suga (C) speaks with reporters at his ministry after his advisory panel endorsed his controversial order for Japan's public broadcaster NHK to focus on the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in its international shortwave radio broadcasts.

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Abduction inquiry group to air messages on radio reaching N. Korea

OSAKA, Japan - Akihiro Arimoto, who had his daughter Keiko abducted by North Korea, speaks as his wife Kayoko listens at a meeting of the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea held in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 22. Kazuhiro Araki, who heads the group, told the meeting it will air messages on shortwave radio, which reaches North Korea, at the end of October in an effort to collect more information about missing Japanese.

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Gov't issues unprecedented order for NHK to focus on abductions

TOKYO, Japan - Genichi Hashimoto, chairman of Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK), fields questions from reporters after Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga issued an unprecedented and controversial order for NHK to air programs focusing on North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals on its shortwave radio service. (Kyodo)

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Gov't issues unprecedented order for NHK to focus on abductions

TOKYO, Japan - Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga heads to his office in Tokyo on Nov. 10 to issue an unprecedented and controversial order for Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) to air programs focusing on North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals on its shortwave radio service. (Kyodo)

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Behave Yourself! film (1951)

Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, Glenn Anders & Sheldon Leonard Characters: William Calhoun 'Bill' Denny, Kate Denny, Pete the Pusher, Shortwave Bert Film: Behave Yourself! (1955) Director: George Beck 03 September 1951 Date: 03-Sep-51

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Panel OKs ministerial order for NHK to focus on reporting abduct

TOKYO, Japan - Telecom minister Yoshihide Suga (C) speaks with reporters at his ministry after his advisory panel endorsed his controversial order for Japan's public broadcaster NHK to focus on the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in its international shortwave radio broadcasts. (Kyodo)

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Abduction inquiry group to air messages on radio reaching N. Kor

OSAKA, Japan - Akihiro Arimoto, who had his daughter Keiko abducted by North Korea, speaks as his wife Kayoko listens at a meeting of the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea held in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 22. Kazuhiro Araki, who heads the group, told the meeting it will air messages on shortwave radio, which reaches North Korea, at the end of October in an effort to collect more information about missing Japanese. (Kyodo)

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Japanese minister vows to rescue abductees

SEOUL, South Korea - Jin Matsubara (R), Japanese minister in charge of addressing the abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s, records a message at a radio station in Seoul on April 22, 2012, for a shortwave program of Free North Korea Radio, which is run by defectors from North Korea. In the message he vowed that Japan will make ''all-out efforts to rescue abductees as soon as possible.'' (Kyodo)