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Hiroshima (Agenzia Fides) - A weekly 7.45am Sunday Gospel programme produced by the Catholic community Hiroshima and broadcast by the local radio station Yamaguchi Radio is having growing success and proving to be an excellent channel for evangelisation and promoting Christian values such as love for others, forgiveness, universal brotherhood.
The programme was an initiative of an Italian Jesuit Fr Domenico Vitali who saw the radio as a means of coming into contact with the life of individuals, families, people living alone, and also with young people. Seeing the growing popularity of the programme the local Church gave full support to the initiative and the radio is used as a means of communication, dialogue and discussion, to promote inter-cultural understanding, and to circulate thoughts and ideas which reflect Christian values.
The Media Commission of the Japanese Bishops’ Conference encourages Catholics to make good use the media and information technology, to discern between what is good and what can be harmful and what can help to face the challenges of modern culture with faith and hope.
The Church in Japan intends to make good use of these ‘new pulpits’, press, radio TV the Internet to spread the Good News”.
Catholics in Japan are now more than one million, 450,000 nationals and 560,000 Catholic immigrant workers. (Agenzia Fides 14/07/2006 Righe: 27 Parole: 274)
