On air
The stations reach over 100,000 people, bringing them current news, entertainment, training and spiritual support.
Alongside gospel homilies and prayers, they broadcast pre-recorded Sunday Masses for those who cannot attend in person — a service that matters in a diocese of 65,000 square kilometres where more than 150 chapels and prayer stations are served by a limited number of clergy.
Everything goes out in five languages: Dinka, Jur, Bongo, Simple Arabic and English.
At a glance
Figures as published by the diocese.
Listeners
Reached across both stations of the diocese.
Languages
Dinka, Jur, Bongo, Simple Arabic and English.
Stations
Good News Radio in Rumbek, and Radio Don Bosco in Tonj.
A watchdog as well as a pulpit
The station is a dedicated human rights watchdog, and says so plainly.
It reports on human rights abuses and malpractice, on corruption by authorities, on forced marriage and on domestic violence — subjects that carry a cost to broadcast, in a region where few others will.
The stations
Between them the two stations cover Lakes State and southern Warrap State — the same ground the seventeen parishes and one mission of the diocese are spread across.
Rumbek
The diocesan station
The station of the Catholic Diocese of Rumbek, broadcasting from Rumbek across Lakes State.
It carries the news, the teaching, the human rights programming and the Sunday Mass described above, in all five languages.
Tonj
91.0 FM
The second station, broadcasting from Tonj on 91.0 FM.
It reaches the northern part of the diocese, where Sacred Heart Parish serves the town and the country around it.
Out of the studio
Much of the schedule is not made in a studio at all.
Radio talk-shows, educational dramas and human rights awareness workshops are built with the communities they concern — recorded where the people are, then carried back out across the state on air.
A school debate in one town becomes an argument the whole diocese can hear.
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