Posts Tagged ‘Television’

Pope hasn’t watched TV since 1990 after promise to Mary

Friday, May 29th, 2015

Pope Francis has revealed that he hasn’t watched television since 1990, as a result of a promise he made to Our Lady of Mt Carmel. In a long and personal interview in Argentinean newspaper La Voz del Pueblo, the Pope said that he made this promise on the night of July 15, 1990. “I told Read more

Former BBC head says Vatican needs to update its media

Friday, May 29th, 2015

The Vatican media needs to “up its game” for the digital age and more towards a more streamlined operation, said a former BBC head. Lord Patten, head of a Vatican Media Committee formed to recommend reforms, said the Holy See needs better capability to respond to a constant news cycle and in different languages. “What Read more

If a media personality infuriates you pray for them

Friday, August 29th, 2014

What do you do whens someone on TV infuriates you? Pray for them says producer and journalist for Television New Zealand, Tim Wilson. Wilson says a mutual distrust exists between the churches and the media. He says prayer as the way forward. “I find that prayer connects me with God, but also connects me with Read more

Atheist TV channel to start broadcasting in US

Friday, May 9th, 2014

The first US television station dedicated solely to atheist content is set to be launched in July. This was announced by American Atheists president David at Stanford University in California on May 6. He said the channel will run atheist content 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Religion News Service reported that Read more

Father Brown: on your screens Sunday nights

Friday, August 23rd, 2013

The Dom Post’s TV reviewer says UKTV’s new Father Brown, on Sundays, has everything the Agatha Christie fan could wish for – the cosy villages, eccentric characters, cottage gardens and sly secrets – only its lead character, an unassuming Catholic priest, is quite without the excessive mannerisms that, at least in the case of Hercule Read more

US TV host claims Pope Francis is an atheist

Friday, June 7th, 2013

Bill Maher, the atheist host of HBO’s “Real Time” show announced that he believed that Pope Francis is an atheist and because of that, it’s likely that the Vatican will attempt to kill the Pope first chance they get. Another display of just how little some people who comment on the church actually know about the Read more

Samoa’s Congregational Church launches radio and TV outlets

Friday, May 17th, 2013

On Thursday the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (EFKS) launched radio and TV outlets in Apia. EFKS media opened with 80 percent coverage of the country. “We hope to have complete coverage in three months,” says Chairman of the General Assembly, Rev. Elder Tautiaga Senara. Both the radio and TV outlets will be under the Read more

Pontifical university will study Downton Abbey dad

Friday, November 30th, 2012

Lord Grantham from Downton Abbey will be among television’s father figures to be studied at an academic conference sponsored by the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in the new year. The conference will be called conference “The Figure of the Father in Television Series”, and it will feature speakers comparing how British and American Read more

Prayer cuts the risk of developing Alzheimers disease

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

A new Israeli-American study has found that women can halve the risk of developing Alzheimers disease by praying regularly. The research was conducted among 600 residents over the age of 65 in the Arab community of Wadi Ara in northern Israel. It could not determine whether prayer cuts the risk of developing Alzheimers disease among Read more

Samoa’s Congregational Christian Church to set up a TV station

Friday, July 27th, 2012

The Congregational Christian Church of Samoa has confirmed the purchase of the old Samoa Observer premises. The property will be used by the church to set up a TV station. The general secretary of the Church, Rev. Dr Iutisone Salevao, said the idea has been in the pipeline for about five years but after its Read more