Lumen Christi TV will show uniqueness of Catholic Church – Olagunju

The founder of the recently inaugurated Lumen Christi Television (LCTV) network, Robert Olagunju, said on Saturday that he set up the station “to express the universality and uniqueness of the Catholic Church.”

Olagunju made the declaration while speaking with journalists in Lagos on the motivation that made him to embark on the multimillion naira cable television project.

“Lumen Christi Television was ordained in heaven. It is by divine grace and providence that I happened to be the labourer, who brought it to reality.

“It gives me concern that the mother church in Africa with millions of lay faithful across this continent does not have a direct means of mass communication for her work of evangelism.

“I realise the sacrifice from all of us and I gladly give myself the challenge of the greater responsibility for the establishment and overall maintenance of the station.”

Olagunju restated that the station would operate round the clock, disseminating mainly Catholic contents to viewers across Africa, Europe and parts of Asia.

He said that an editorial management team would soon be put in place to guide the operations of the station, assuring that the free-to-air network would dwell on programmes that would “edify God and nurture the faithful”.

Speaking also on the new network, the Most Rev. Emmanuel Badejo, Chairman of the Directorate of Communications of the Catholic Bishops Conference, described the network as a medium that would promote the culture of life.

He said that the station could light up the thick darkness of tragedies, disasters and woes in Nigeria and also “light up our lives with the light of Christ and the gospel”.

Badejo said that the network was about evangelism and bringing the good news of truth, love, justice and peace to the homes of millions who had no hope.

The station is located at KM 15 in Lekki on the Lagos-Epe Expressway.