Saturday, March 30, 2024

Fox News Media To Present Easter Specials


FOX News Media will present special extended programming across its platforms leading up to and through Easter Sunday, including the Pope’s Easter Sunday Mass at St. Peter’s Square and a message from Israel by evangelist Franklin Graham. Coverage across FOX News Channel (FNC) and other platforms will encompass broadcasts from church services around the world from the Vatican to New York City, as well as reporting and special programming centered around the holiday.

FNC will feature special coverage surrounding the Easter holiday across its programs. From 4 AM until 6 AM/ET on Easter Sunday, FNC will broadcast live Easter Sunday services from Vatican City with Pope Francis. Continuing at 12 PM/ET, Franklin Graham, President of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, will deliver an Easter message from Israel. FOX & Friends Weekend will present a holiday edition of the show (6-10 AM/ET) with co-hosts Rachel Campos-Duffy, Pete Hegseth and Will Cain featuring Easter-themed segments and the final installment of the franchise’s Faith and Friends concert series with contemporary Christian musician Matthew West.

FOX News Digital will provide coverage of various domestic and international religious events on FOXNews.com, including Good Friday’s Celebration of the Passion of the Lord at St. Peter’s Basilica and Way of the Cross at the Colosseum, Easter Vigil on Holy Night at St. Peter’s Basilica, and, on Easter Sunday, Daytime Mass at St. Peter’s Square and Central Loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica’s Blessing ‘Urbi et Orbi’.

FOX News Audio will offer hours of special holiday programming with FOX News Radio providing Pope Francis’ Easter Mass to all affiliates with correspondent Gurnel Scott reporting on Pope Francis’ message. The platform will also feature several Easter-themed podcasts, including FNC religion correspondent Lauren Green’s Lighthouse Faith program’s interview with Bishop Robert Barron in Rochester, Minnesota at Word on Fire Ministries and The Livin’ the Bream Podcast with Shannon Bream will spotlight author and minister Dr. Jeremiah Johnson for an Easter episode about the beauty and symbolism of Jesus’s resurrection. Additionally, Mark Wahlberg’s brother, film producer and screenwriter Jim Wahlberg, joins The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum to discuss reconnecting with God after years of addiction.

FOX Nation will present religious content throughout the holiday including The Passion of the Christ, The Chosen, and The Life of Jesus.

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