MISSIONARIES OF THE NEW EVANGELISATION

Dear collaborators, volunteers, and listeners of Radio Maria. This year, once again, we will take part in the great worldwide Mariathon of Radio Maria and the World Family of Radio Maria. In May of this year 2023, we will all be busy helping and participating all together in these new projects, responding to the new calls of the Church in the world, in the various continents.

A lot has been done in the past years. I would like to point out that, particularly in developing countries, in the African continent, we have managed, thanks to your help and the participation of all listeners, to build more than 140 repeaters in 27 African countries.

Thanks to your help, today, millions of people throughout sub-Saharan Africa are listening to Radio Maria. I would also like to mention the projects in the Middle East, in Asia, and, of course, in our European continent, in Latin America and in North America.

Today we are called to support new projects that the Church is asking us to carry out this year. In Africa, there is a clear need to expand and create a national network in Nigeria (more than 10 frequencies), in Congo, in Kenya, in Tanzania, to make it more and more national, to create, as in our European countries, a national network, able to reach remote dioceses.

There is also a need to build substations that can broadcast liturgies and Holy Masses in the local languages, African mother tongues. Hence, I would like to thank you all and encourage you to get involved in these great projects. We have been called to help not only in Africa but also with projects in America, with technical support needed for radiofrequency and satellites. Our radio stations need your help. There are also new projects in the Middle East: the creation of a network in Lebanon and the need to always support those Radio Maria stations in countries where there are conflicts. Let’s not forget Ukraine and our Eastern European radio stations that are suffering because of this conflict which may also feel close to all of us.

Lastly, with regards to Asia, it is important that we carry out the new projects for expansion in India but I also want to stress the importance of our continued commitment in countries where Radio Maria is present such as Indonesia, the Philippines and, last but not least, Oceania, namely Papua New Guinea and Australia. Therefore, I would like to thank you and encourage you all to participate and become missionaries in this great Mariathon; we call it Mariathon precisely because we want to run together with the Virgin Mary, responding to the calls of the Church, and, together, be missionaries of the New Evangelisation with Radio Maria. Thank you!