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July 16, 2000
Adventist Press Service (APD)
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Adventist World Radio Receives Permit To Build A 
Bigger Voice

Rome/Italy.      On 4 July 2000, the city council of 
Argenta, Italy, granted to Adventist World Radio 
(AWR) a "long-awaited, long-prayed-for" permit to 
build a new short-wave facility to reach the Middle 
East, North, East and West Africa and large areas of 
the Asian continent, according to Don Jacobsen, 
AWR president.

Jacobsen said that, after a final technical review by 
AWR engineers next month, bids for construction 
would be let, and construction could begin soon 
after.

"In cooperation with the six divisions that will be 
affected," says Jacobsen, "this new station will 
enable us to add some 15 new languages to the 
nearly 60 that AWR is already using, focusing 
primarily on those areas of the world where we are 
not now able to work by any other means.  It will 
give us complete coverage of the 10-40 window,  in 
the languages of the people who live there."

The Italian government passed a law allowing for 
short-wave stations owned by non-profit 
organizations in 1995, and under this law, granted 
AWR a short-wave license in 1996.  In September 
1997, a zoning variance allowed the construction of 
the station in a formerly agricultural area.

Groundbreaking is slated for August 2000, said 
Jacobsen.  "We invite the world church to join the 
Adventist World Radio staff in a splendid corporate 
doxology as this great gospel lighthouse becomes a 
reality at last!" (210/2000)