''Ang Iglesia ni Cristo'' () is the first religious television program produced by the international Christian religious organization Iglesia ni Cristo (through the

Christian Era Broadcasting Service International Christian Era Broadcasting Service International, Inc. (CEBSI) (known as Christian Broadcasting Service from 1969 to 1994 and Christian Era Broadcasting Service Inc., from 1994 to 2014) is a Philippine television and radio network, and a reli ...

) and its currently broadcast by INC TV (

DZCE-TV DZCE-TV is the flagship non-commercial station of the Philippine television network INC TV (merger of GEM TV and INC Channel on SkyCable and stylized as INCTV). INCTV is the flagship UHF television station of Christian Era Broadcasting Service ...

) and

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. The program premiered on February 13, 1983 on MBS (now known as PTV 4) and RPN 9, along with City 2 Television (reverted to

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) from the same year until 1986 when BBC-2 was signed off after

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. One of its first panelists of the program was Bro.

Eduardo V. Manalo Eduardo Villanueva Manalo (; born October 31, 1955, in Quezon City, Philippines) also known as Ka Erdy is the current Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC). He is the third generation of the Manalo family to lead the church following ...

which he's now a current executive minister of the church. After the

People Power Revolution The People Power Revolution, also known as the EDSA Revolution or the February Revolution, was a series of popular demonstrations in the Philippines, mostly in Metro Manila, from February 22 to 25, 1986. There was a sustained campaign of c ...

, the program transferred to

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. It later aired on

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in 1990. When

was launched, most of its INC programs (including "Iglesia ni Cristo") began to air on the said network. Ang Iglesia ni Cristo was also aired when Iglesia ni Cristo (through its religious broadcast arm, Christian Era Broadcasting Service) established its own TV network, GEM TV in 2005 and it later replaced by INC TV in October 2012.

References

{{Iglesia ni Cristo Philippine religious television series People's Television Network original programming Radio Philippines Network original programming ABS-CBN original programming 1983 Philippine television series debuts Iglesia ni Cristo Filipino-language television shows