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The Managing Editor of the Ghana Catholic Standard, Sir Ben Batabe Assorow has been recognised for his sterling performance and wonderful support to SIGNIS Africa, a body of catholic communication professionals in Africa. He had served the organisation, which was formerly known as UNDA-Africa, as its President from 1987 to 1994 and then again from 1998 to 2001 and was also on the World Board of SIGNIS during those periods.
A former Director of Communications of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), Mr Assorow also served as the Executive Secretary of the Department of Social Communications of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC). Again, he served as a Consultant of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, now known as the Dicastery for Communications at the Vatican.
In recognition of his service and dedication to the Catholic Church, Pope Emeritus Benedict XI in 2006, conferred on him the title of a Knight in the Papal Knighthood Order of St. Gregory the Great.
Sir Ben Assorow, who is a member of the Council of Elders of the Union Catholique Africaine de la Presse (UCAP), the African Catholic Union of the Press, is an alumnus of the Ghana Institute of Journalism. He served as Chairman of the Elections Committee of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) for many years and represented the GJA on different occasions on the Boards of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and the Graphic Communications Group Ltd.
He is currently on the National Media Commission (NMC), representing the Christian Religious Groups in Ghana and also a Board Member of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
Sir Assorow was most grateful to SIGNIS Africa and the Nomination Committee for finding him worthy for an award. He dedicated the award to the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), all those he had worked with over the years as well as his wife and children.
