55 Responsible for Catholic radios from 14 Latin American countries met in Lima (Peru) to create a new network with a single goal: to announce the Gospel and build the kingdom of God, according to the bishop coordinating of the Pastoral Center for Celam Communications, Mons. Daniel Blanco.
In an interview with Ewtn News, the Auxiliary Bishop of San José (Costa Rica) said that this event, held from August 28, occurs after the accompaniment offered to Latin American digital missionaries and after a meeting in Brazil with those in charge of Catholic television companies in the region.
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This meeting in Peru, he said, has served to “coordinate the joint work of the missionary action that is carried out from the media and the new areaupagos, the new trenches from which we announce the Gospel.”
In that sense, the prelate stressed that the radio is “a very supportive media, because it reaches the last corners, especially in places where the technological gap is very large and still access to the Internet is difficult.”
The coordinator of the CELAM Communications Pastoral Center (Latin American Episcopal Council) commented with Ewtn News that the faithful can go to the Catholic radios to “listen to the word of God, the Gospel, the celebration of the sacraments and the good news that the Church can make”, and stressed that the encounter also had the “clear objective of being able to create a network of Catholic radio stations of Latin America”.
The Catholic radios, the bishop continued, have “a common goal that is to announce the gospel and build the kingdom.”
Missionaries of hope
In the inaugural session of the event, Mons. Lucio Adrián Ruiz, secretary of the Dicasterio for the Communication of the Holy See, who encouraged the participants to be “missionaries of hope” participated and stressed that communication in the church must focus on the “encounter, relationship and humanity”.
Ruiz, says the website From the Peruvian Episcopate, he also encouraged to open his eyes to the challenges of our time, remembering that Catholic radio, such as Radio Vaticana, “has been and remains a company, School of Communion and Semillero de Esperanza.”
He also stressed that this event was held within the framework of the jubilee that the Catholic Church celebrates this 2025, “a call to look up, to discover that God continues to act in history and let us renew for his spirit.”
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.