I am not alone
in my outrage at DSTVs clear discrimination against Catholics. I wrote recently about how, in South Africa,
DSTV has made various religious channels available through its satellite
television network, but has refused to make available the Catholic channel,
EWTN, despite numerous requests.
The religious
channels offered by DSTV includes: 1G, TBN Africa, Rhema TV and iTV. Until recently DSTV did also make available the Catholic network, EWTN, to its viewers outside of South Africa, such as in
Nigeria, on channel 348. That is however no longer true.
DSTV has now cancelled that channel, despite
protests. You can read more about it in
this post: DSTV Discriminates Openly Against Catholics.
The bishops of
Nigeria have not been silent on the discrimination shown by DSTV towards
Catholics. The Catholic Bishops have protested DSTV’s suspension of religious channel and
the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has gone as far as to declare that “it will sue the management of the satellite
television, DSTV, for suspending a religious channel on its bouquet.”
It is time, in
my opinion, for the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference to also speak out strongly, in solidarity with the
Nigerian Bishops, on this subject. In
fact, its is time that the Catholic Bishop Conferences throughout Africa, who
are affected by this decision of DSTV, join forces and take action against
DSTV.
It is time to
take a stand!!!
To see more related to this:
It would be nice if some Catholic attorney/advocate would financially sponso a court action on behalf of the local bisops, with their consent, of course, against DSTV.
ReplyDeleteIn my book DSTV is discriminating, frustrating our Catholic constituional rights, albeit for very little cost, I still get EWTN without any assistamnce from DSTV.
I understand that DSTv has returned EWTN to the available channels in Nigeria. The answer for South Africa remains "NO".
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