Catholic television refers to television networks and programs based on the teachings of the
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
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Networks
Argentina
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Canal Orbe 21
Canal Orbe 21 (call sign LRL 456 TV) is a television station on channel 21.2 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the television station Catholic of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires.
History
The Federal Broadcasting Committee (COMFER) authorized the ...
, HQ; Buenos Aires
Brazil
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Canção Nova
The Canção Nova (English: ''New Song'') is a Brazilian Catholic community founded by Monsignor Jonas Abib in 1978, following the lines of Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Headquartered in the city of Cachoeira Paulista (SP), it occupies an area o ...
, HQ; Cachoeira Paulista
* Rede Aparecida, HQ; Aparecida, SP. Launched in 2005
* Rede Vida, HQ; São José do Rio Preto, SP. Launched in 1995
Canada
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Salt + Light Television
Salt + Light Television is a Canadian multi-lingual Category B television channel owned by the not-for-profit Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation and based in Toronto, Ontario. The channel broadcasts faith-based programming for Roman Cath ...
, HQ; Toronto
Chile
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TV+ (Chile)
TV+ (pronounced ''Te Ve Más'' or TV Más) is a Chilean free-to-air television channel. which is broadcast from Santiago. Previously known as the Television Corporation of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso or UCV Televisión, it w ...
, HQ; Santiago
Colombia
*Cristovisión, HQ;
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...
Congo, Democratic Republic of
*Zénith Radio-Télévision, HQ;
Lubumbashi
Lubumbashi (former names: ( French), (Dutch)) is the second-largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the country's southeasternmost part, along the border with Zambia. The capital and principal city of the Haut-Katanga ...
Croatia
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Laudato TV
Laudato TV is a Croatian local television station based in Zagreb (with studio in Split also). Television started its broadcasting at Christmas 2015. It was the most-viewed local television in Croatia in 2019.KTO (TV channel), HQ; Malakoff, near Paris. Broadcasts in France, Belgium, and Switzerland
Germany
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EWTN
The Eternal Word Television Network, more commonly known by its initials EWTN, is an American basic cable television network which presents around-the-clock Catholic-themed programming. It is not only the largest Catholic television network in ...
Hyderabad
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...
, Telangana
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Goodness (TV channel)
''Goodness TV'' is a 24-hour Indian satellite channel, airing Christian spiritual programs. The channel airs programs in Malayalam and English. The channel is owned and managed by Goodness Media Private Limited. Goodness Media Private Limited i ...
, HQ; Kochi, Kerala
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Jeevan TV
Jeevan TV is a news and entertainment Malayalam television channel. Its headquarters is at Palarivattom, Kochi, India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and depende ...
, HQ; Kochi, Kerala
* Madha TV, HQ;
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
, Tamil Nadu
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Shalom (TV channel)
Shalom Television is an Indian Catholic Christian television channel based in Kerala. The channel broadcasts programs include a daily Holy Mass and also Tridentine Mass format, the traditional Nasrani rosary recitation. It also broadcasts ...
, HQ; Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
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Shekinah TV
''Shekinah News TV'' is a 24-hour Indian satellite News channel, airing Christian spiritual programs, current affairs and news. Live telecasting The channel airs programs in Malayalam and English. The channel is managed by Shekinah Communication ...
, HQ; Thalikode, Kerala
Italy/Vatican
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Padre Pio TV
Padre Pio TV, formerly known as Tele Radio Padre Pio, is a Catholic television channel belonging to the Capuchin Friars of San Giovanni Rotondo, a city in the province of Foggia, Italy, the place where lived and died the saint Padre Pio of Pietre ...
, HQ; San Giovanni Rotondo
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Telepace
Telepace is an Italy-based broadcasting network, established in 1979, that carries Roman Catholic-themed programming. The programs include programming from Centro Televisivo Vaticano. Its headquarters are in Cerna, a frazione of Sant'Anna d'Alfae ...
, HQ; Cerna
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TV2000
TV2000 is an Italy-based broadcasting network that carries Roman Catholic-themed programming, available on digital terrestrial television in Italy and owned by the Italian Episcopal Conference, the conference of the Catholic bishops of Italy.
L ...
, HQ; Roma
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Vatican Media
Vatican Media, formerly Centro Televisivo Vaticano, is the Holy See's national broadcaster based in Vatican City which first aired in 1983.
History of the channel
Created in 1983 by Pope John Paul II, Vatican Media is, since November 1996, an in ...
, HQ; Roma
Lebanon
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Télé Lumière
Télé Lumière is the first Christian television station in Lebanon and the Arab world and was founded in 1991. Since 2003, it also broadcasts satellite programming worldwide under the name Noursat.
History
Télé Lumière meaning the "Televi ...
, HQ; Beirut
Mexico
*María Visión, HQ;
Zapopan
Zapopan () is a city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Part of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, the population of Zapopan city proper makes it the second largest city in the state, very close behind the population of ...
Netherlands
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KRO-NCRV
KRO-NCRV is a Dutch public broadcasting company based in Hilversum established on January 1, 2014 from a merger of the broadcasters Catholic Radio Broadcasting (KRO) and the Dutch Christian Radio Association (NCRV), transmitting on NPO 1, NPO ...
, HQ; Hilversum
Nigeria
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Catholic Television of Nigeria
Catholic Television Nigeria is a Catholic television network based in Abuja, Nigeria. It is intended to be used as a tool of evangelisation to deepen the faith of the Catholic faithful within and outside Nigeria.
Though yet to acquire a standar ...
, HQ; Abuja
* Lumen Christi TV, HQ;
Lagos
Lagos (Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the List of cities in Africa by population, second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national ca ...
Catholic TV (Pakistan)
Good News Catholic TV was established in 2009 and was the first Catholic television broadcast channel in Pakistan. The cable channel and other Christian broadcasts were banned by the government of Pakistan in 2016. Good News Catholic TV continues ...
, former Pakistani television channel
Panama
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FETV (Panama)
FETV is a television network that broadcasts on channel 5 in Panama City, and is headquartered in Panama City, Panama, with repeaters throughout the country. The network and stations broadcast in the NTSC format. The network takes its name from ...
, HQ; Panama City
Peru
* JN19 TV, HQ;
San Miguel District, Lima
San Miguel is one of the 43 districts that are part of the Lima province and is part of the urban area of Lima, Peru. It is bordered by the districts of Bellavista and downtown Lima on the north; Pueblo Libre, Magdalena del Mar and downtown Lima ...
Philippines
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Cebu Catholic Television Network
Cebu Catholic Television Network (CCTN) is a broadcast television channel owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cebu and Fil-Products Group of Companies in the Philippines. The station's studios are located at the CCTN Broadcast Center, Car ...
, HQ; Cebu
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TV Maria
TV Maria is a national Catholic television channel broadcasting from Manila, Philippines. Owned by TV Maria Foundation Philippines (a non-profit, non-stock organization under the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines and the Roman C ...
, HQ; Manila
Poland
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Telewizja Trwam
TV Trwam is a Polish TV channel in Toruń, Poland, belonging to the Lux Veritatis Foundation.
Ownership and financing
The station is owned by the Warsaw Province of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer and is financed through donations f ...
, HQ; Toruń
Portugal
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Angelus TV
Angelus TV was a Portuguese Catholic television channel founded in 2017 in the city of Fátima, Portugal.WORO-DT
WORO-DT (channel 13) is an educational/religious independent television station licensed to San Juan, Puerto Rico. United States. The station is owned by Grupo RTC under Puerto Rico's Roman Catholic Church - San Juan Archdiocese, and is branded ...
Seoul
Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...
Cadena COPE
COPE, an acronym for Cadena de Ondas Populares Españolas ("People's Radiowaves of Spain Network") formerly called Radio Popular, is a Spanish language radio station. It is the second most listened to in Spain's generalist radio. Owned by the Sp ...
Television, HQ; Madrid
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Trece (Spanish TV channel)
TRECE (formerly called 13TV) is a Spanish free-to-air television channel run by the Episcopal Conference of Spain, belongs to Radio Popular group together with the radio stations COPE, Rock FM, Cadena 100 and MegaStar FM and the TV network Popular ...
, HQ; Madrid
Sri Lanka
* Verbum TV, HQ;
Ragama
Ragama ( si, රාගම ta, ரா௧ம) is a suburb of Colombo, located in the Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is governed by the Ja-Ela Pradeshiya Sabha.
History
In July 1874 a rail line, known as the Breakwater line, ...
CatholicTV
The CatholicTV Network, commonly known as CatholicTV, is a Catholic television network based in Watertown, Massachusetts. CatholicTV first launched locally in Boston in 1955, making it the oldest Catholic television network in the United States ...
, HQ; Watertown, Massachusetts
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Eternal Word Television Network
The Eternal Word Television Network, more commonly known by its initials EWTN, is an American basic cable television network which presents around-the-clock Catholic-themed programming. It is not only the largest Catholic television network in ...
, HQ; Irondale, Alabama. The world's largest religious media network.
* KIFR, US, HQ; Fresno, California
* New Evangelization Television, HQ; Brooklyn, New York
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Shalom World
Shalom World is a 24-hour, commercial-free, English-language television channel that broadcasts spiritual and religious programs related to the Christian faith. The channel broadcasts Catholic Mass, documentaries, animations, music videos, conc ...
Vale TV
Vale TV ''(Valores Educativos Televisión)'' (formerly a public-owned educational channel in Venezuela called Televisora Nacional) is a television channel run by Asociación Civil, a non-profit association owned by the Roman Catholic Archbishopr ...
, HQ; Caracas
See also
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International religious television broadcasters
International religious television broadcasters broadcast from a host nation to another nation or nations. Such operations are mostly operated from the United States of America, Portugal and Italy, in conjunction with a religious organization hav ...
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SIGNIS
SIGNIS (official name: World Catholic Association for Communication) is a Roman Catholic lay ecclesial movement for professionals in the communication media, including press, radio, television, cinema, video, media education, internet, and new ...