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Radio Maria in the European continent Europe: a continent to re-evangelize?

Courageously proclaiming and giving witness to the works of God so that each radio might become a “field hospital”.

Daniele Trenca

WFRM Editorial Office

It is no exaggeration to say that the challenge that Radio Maria is facing in the Old Continent has an almost epochal scope. The contemporary world, and especially the globalized West, seems to have lost and denied its own roots.

This is why, among other reasons, the mission of evangelization that Radio Maria carries out daily finds itself contextualized in a very particular area where the crisis of faith and de-Christianization have led to an almost total indifference toward the sacred. Pope Francis, in a conference with the Italian Church summarized that thought as follows: “One could say that today we are not living an epoch of change so much as an epochal change. The situations that we are living in today therefore pose new challenges which, at times, are also difficult for us to understand. Our time requires us to live problems as challenges and not as obstacles: the Lord is active and at work in our world.”

The strength of the Project that we are disseminating throughout the continents lies precisely in the fact that it is a Project of Providence, reminding every person

that Christianity is the “We are not living been left by the wayside only revealed religion ca- an epoch and to help those who pable of saving humanity through personal en- of change have never been able to know true Love. That counter with Jesus Christ, so much as an is, a Love (with a capithe Son of God. epochal change” tal “A”) that needs to be cultivated day after day. That is why Radio Maria Pope Francis We are certain that, cannot fail to take up the as St. Paul says in his witness of this important letter to the Romans: challenge. Every radio in Europe has become a “Where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more” “field hospital” to accompany those who have (Rom 5:20).

European Continental Meeting (Erba-Italy) – 2019