A church-run radio network was able to link Catholics in China with urban poor communities in the Philippines despite the global health crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.
In recent weeks, Radio Veritas Asia facilitated the distribution of aid from mainland Chinese Catholics to poor communities most affected by a lockdown in Manila.
The radio network’s Mandarin Service based in Manila reported that it received from Catholic donors in China about US$85,000 that was spent to buy more than 45,000 kilograms of rice.
Father Joseph Leo, coordinator of Radio Veritas Asia’s Mandarin Service, told LiCAS.news that 99 percent of the donations came from listeners in mainland China.
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Radio Veritas Asia (RVA), a media platform of the Catholic Church, aims to share Christ. RVA started in 1969 as a continental Catholic radio station to serve Asian countries in their respective local language, thus earning the tag “the Voice of Asian Christianity.” Responding to the emerging context, RVA embraced media platforms to connect with the global Asian audience via its 21 language websites and various social media platforms.
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