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Radio Veritas 846, the leading faith-based AM radio station in the Philippines, will air a special programming on February 25, 2016 for the commemoration of the 30th year anniversary of the historic bloodless EDSA People Power Revolution.
The special programming will start with the coverage of the flag raising ceremony and the traditional “Salubungan” from the People Power Monument at EDSA Cor. White Plains Avenue at 7:30 am.
Radio Veritas will also air on various timeslots the launching of the Jubilee for Good Governance from the Mary Queen of Peace Shrine commonly known as EDSA Shrine. The event is part of the Archdiocese of Manila’s activities for the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.
The Eucharistic Celebration at 12:15pm to be president by Novaliches Bishop Emeritus, Most Rev. Bishop Teodoro Bacani Jr., D.D. will be aired live.
The forum proper featuring notable speakers such as lawyer, author, lecturer, philanthropist and politician best known as the author of “12 Little Things Every Filipino Can Do To Help Our Country” Alex Lacson, Roy Calleja of the Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals, and Bishop Bacani, will have a delayed airing at 7pm
Meanwhile, the public service program “Caritas sa Veritas” will give way for the airing of the documentary, “EDSA@30”.
All throughout the day, news reports and updates related to the 30th anniversary celebration of EDSA People Power will also be heard from Radio Veritas.
The EDSA People Power Revolution was said to be the first event in the history of the world to be ran by a Catholic radio.
It was through Radio Veritas where the late Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila pleaded support to then Vice Chief of Staff Fidel V. Ramos and Minister of Defense Juan Ponce Enrile who held a press conference on February 22, 1986 to announce their withdrawal of support from the dictatorship and called upon the resignation of President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
As response to Cardinal Sin’s call, nearly two million people gathered in EDSA and formed a human barricade between Camp Crame and Camp Aguinaldo. Prayers and rosaries strengthened by faith were the only weapons that the Filipinos used to recover their freedom from the 20-year rule of then President Marcos.
The station gave opportunity to those from the Church, the opposition and other sectors to speak. It made its listeners aware of their rights as well as their responsibilities as Filipino citizens especially during the peaceful demonstration of EDSA 1.
That same year, Radio Veritas received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts recognizing its crucial role in using the truth to depose an oppressive and corrupt regime and restore Filipino faith in the electoral process.
Today, Radio Veritas continues to be the leading social communications ministry for truth and new evangelization providing religious programs but is also putting forward Church advocacies and social concerns to its listeners.
