WORLD FAMILY OF RADIO MARIA
What is Radio Maria?
Our contribution to the Universal Church From a parish radio to the most widespread Catholic radio station in the world: how we have come to this point today.
Emanuele Ferrario WFRM Former President
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s the former president, I am often urged to recall the history of the Radio Maria project and I am happy to respond, even if my residual energies are aimed at helping our young collaborators grow this luxuriant tree that is Radio Maria in the world today.
then the first response to a request in Africa in 1993 to Burkina Faso. In 1995, our sight was widened by a request from Peru, followed by Malta, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Germany, Croatia, Togo, Russia, and Guatemala, which were the cofounders of the World Family of Radio Maria born on 3 June 1998.
They story is well-known. In 1983, it was a parish radio called Radio Maria. In 1987, in a last gasp effort, Radio Maria joined with a non-profit association, foreswore advertising, and confidently embraced Divine Providence. Its a wide-spread network created to help evangelizing and to convert people. In terms of repeating towers, is unparalleled even today, after thirty years. The first look beyond Italy’s borders, in 1992, brought the Radio Maria signal to Italians living in the United States,
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