EWTN, the world’s Catholic media chain, has organized a special visit to Costa Rica for a series of dissemination events of faith and promotion of life.
The visit will begin on Tuesday, August 26, with the arrival in the country of Ximena Izquierdo, manager of Missionary Friends of Ewtn for Latin America, who will have an interview on the Costa Rican Costa Rican Telefides.
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The next day, from 6:00 pm (local time) a mass will be held in the chapel of the house of María Auxiliadora, social works Sor María Romero. Next, a conversation and the Testimony of Healing of Guatemalan marriage will take place and Lester Barrientos.
In a statement, Missionary friends of Ewtn points out that “this will be an experience with Jesus sacramented, especially for the injuries for abortion and post abortion syndrome, of so many men and women who suffer from it.”
For the morning of Thursday, August 28, a meeting for Catholic communicators is scheduled at the works of the works of the Holy Spirit, Barrio Cristo Rey. With the theme “How to communicate the truth in the times of the post Truth”, in this event both Ximena Izquierdo and the priest Janne Rishor and Sr. Gloriana Cordero, of the Oblates of the Divine Love, who participated at the end of July in Rome in Rome in the jubilee of the digital missionaries and in the jubilee of the youth.
That night the international apostolate of the divine child of Mother Angelica for life in Costa Rica has planned the enthronement of the image of the divine child, whom the founder of Ewtn kept special devotion, in the chapel of a social work that assists women and men in San José.
On August 29 from 10:00 am, the conversation “The Provide Action and its impact on society” will be held in the Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados parish.
Speaking to ACI Press, Ximena Izquierdo expressed her “immense joy” for “being able to meet again” with Costa Rican Catholics.
“This visit to Costa Rica is part of our mission in EWTN, which is to approach as a spiritual family, to know and link together with those who are also forming and are being part of Catholic initiatives that help the same mission that Ewtn has, which is to bring souls to the Lord, help and live the gospel in some way to lead to God to others,” he said.
“That is why it is so interesting and it is a spiritual wealth, waiting for fruits to be given for the glory of God, every time I visit a country and there are so many activities around many organizations that just try to move forward and rely on our platforms, both news and television and content,” he added.
Izquierdo also thanked the affection and reception that various Costa Rican Catholic organizations have for Ewtn, as is the case of telephone, the Association Works of the Holy Spirit with Fr. Sergio Valverde, the parish Our Lady of the Desamparados, the community of sisters of María Auxiliadora, 40 days for life, doctors for life, Radio María, Radio Fides, and all the friends of Ewtn in Costa Rich
For more information, you can visit the Instagram profile of missionary friends of Ewtn or write to WhatsApp +593 939730970.
David Ramos
Graduate in Communication Sciences by the Private University of the North in Trujillo, Peru. With more than 12 years of experience in Catholic journalism working in ACI Press, I am based in Mexico since 2018. I have covered the trips of Pope Francis to Ecuador, Paraguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Panama.