“Jesus The Answer” – WJTA 88.9FM Catholic Radio Comes to Toldeo!

The Toledo Blade reports:

In a field next to a white farmhouse just west of this Putnam County village, a nearly 200-foot radio tower lies in pieces, waiting for the ground to dry out so that a crane can raise it into place.

Once the tower is erected, what’s expected to be the first Catholic radio station in the Diocese of Toledo should be on the air.

Holy Family Radio, with the broadcast frequency 88.9 FM, has the call letters WJTA, for “Jesus The Answer,” Jim Lammers, assistant director, said. The nonprofit station plans to broadcast Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) programming and work in local announcements and live broadcasts of Masses from parishes in the listening area.

While Holy Family Radio may be the first Catholic radio station in the diocese, it won’t be alone for long.

Toledo-based Annunciation Radio is expected to go on the air later this summer, Deacon Michael Learned, president, said. Annunciation Radio plans a second station in Sandusky by the year’s end.

“By the end of the year we’ll have all of the north coast covered with Catholic radio, and, with the Dieterings’ help, we’ll be down in that area too,” Mr. Learned said.

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Mother Angelica Now in HD!

Once again on the cutting edge… EWTN is now available in HD in the Richmond VA area:

EWTN Global Catholic Network is pleased to announce that its new high definition network is now available to Comcast Digital TV customers in the Richmond area, including the City of Richmond as well as Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Louisa and Powhatan Counties.  EWTN HD is available on Comcast’s Digital Starter channel 799 in these areas.  ”We are proud to say that we are the only Catholic television network available in this format,” said EWTN President and CEO Michael P. Warsaw.

EWTN has been serving Catholics, the largest faith group in the United States, using every form of technology for 28 years. The Faith never looked so good!

 

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“You take one of my cows, and I’ll take two of yours”

ReliefWeb reports:

“You take one of my cows, and I’ll take two of yours.”In Southern Sudan, this way of solving problems is much too common. Although Sudan’s 22-year second civil war ended in 2005, many people still turn to violence when disputes arise. The Catholic Church believes it’s time for this to change.

“Sudan has been undergoing 50 years of conflict,” says Sister Cecilia Sierra Salcido, a Comboni Missionary sister and director of Radio Bakhita. Sister Cecilia says this has caused many people to believe that retribution is good and that killing out of revenge is justified. “It’s good to challenge this worldview and invite people to understand the world in different ways.”

Beating the Drums for Peace

In February 2010, the Sudan Catholic Radio Network began Beat the Drums for Peace. This radio project—part of Catholic Relief Services’ $4-million initiative to support peace in Sudan—consists of 3-to-5-minute programs that share messages of peace and ways to peacefully resolve conflicts.

Between February and April, the project developed 10 messages about trust, peace, justice and individual responsibility. Radio Bakhita in the southern capital of Juba produces the messages in English. The station then works with six other Catholic stations to translate the messages into 10 languages, including variations of Arabic, Dinka, Nuer and Hausa.

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USCCB Belongs to Pro-Abort Coalition Including Planned Parenthood Supporting Kagan with Video Ad

Lifesite News reports:

A civil rights coalition that boasts the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) among its members has published a 30-second ad endorsing Solicitor General Elena Kagan, who is pro-abortion and homosexualist, for the Supreme Court.The advertisement, which lists Kagan’s various achievements while President Obama describes the ideal Supreme Court nominee in a voiceover, is available on the website of The Coalition for Constitutional Values, a project of the Leadership Counsel for Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR). The Coalition for Constitutional Values also re-published a statement praising Kagan from the Human Rights Campaign, a leading homosexualist group in the U.S.

The pro-abortion and homosexualist lobbying activities of LCCHR, whose members must pay a $1000-minimum annual membership fee, are well-documented. On its website, the group lists the “right to privacy and choice” of abortion as among women’s rights, and pushes for same-sex “marriage” and other homosexualist legislation as a matter of civil “rights.”

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Moroccans Plotted to Kill Benedict

ADNKronos reports:

Two Moroccan terrorist suspects deported from Italy last month were allegedly plotting to kill Pope Benedict XVI, Italian weekly Panorama claims in its latest issue to be released on Friday. Mohammed Hlal and Errahmouni Ahmed were students at the University of Perugia until their repatriation to Morocco on 29 April.

“Hlal wanted to kill the Vatican’s head of state (the pope), saying he was ready to assassinate him and gain his place in paradise,” Italy’s interior minister Roberto Maroni wrote in the expulsion order authorising Hlal and Ahmed’s deportations, cited by Panorama.

Anti-terror police in Perugia intercepted Hlal discussing his plans to carry out attacks and readiness to obtain explosives for the attacks during a series of tapped telephone conversations, according to Panorama.

The Spirit is Moving in Fort Wayne – Redeemer Radio Begins Fund Drive

Fort Wayne News Sentinel Reports:

Redeemer Radio, 1450-AM, has launched the public phase of a $900,000 capital campaign that would allow it to fully equip its new studios and to reach a wider audience.

Station officials announced the “Building Faith, Sharing Christ” fund drive Tuesday in conjunction with a visit by Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend to bless the station’s new studios in an office park at 4618 E. State Blvd., Suite 200, just east of Coliseum Boulevard. The station has been located at 4705 Illinois Road.

The private portion of the capital campaign already has raised $569,000, or 63 percent of the goal, station staff member Patty Becker said in a news release. Rhoades and his predecessor, Bishop John M. D’Arcy, will serve as honorary co-chairs of the fund drive.

Raising the $900,000 will allow the station to:

♦Complete the move to its new, larger location, which provides the space needed for expansion.

♦Develop and air a locally produced weekday program intended to inspire Catholics and non-Catholics in their faith.

♦Add ownership of an FM noncommercial radio station, which will allow Redeemer Radio to broadcast programming to many areas of the diocese currently unable to pick up its AM signal.

♦Pay off the $450,000 remaining on the initial loan used to start the station in January 2006, saving nearly $70,000 a year in principal and interest payments.

For more information about the station or the capital fund drive, go to http://www.redeemerradio.com/. <!–

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