First Time Ever... Catholic Evangelization Ads on National, Prime-Time Network Tevevision!

11/9/2011 - 10:48 AM PST

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA ADVISORY
Catholic PRWire

CATHOLICS COME HOME� COMMERCIALS AIRING NATIONWIDE

Atlanta (Roswell), GA (November 9, 2011) - Catholics Come Home� announces a major, national, prime-time network television evangelization initiative, for the first time ever in the 2,000 year history of the Catholic Church, to air from December 16, 2011 through January 8, 2012.

This invitation of the New Evangelization highlights the history, beauty, spirituality and accomplishments of the Catholic Church. The positive message will reach 250 million television viewers in over 10,000 U.S. cities and every diocese throughout the United States, airing over 400 times during the three week period spanning before Christmas through the Feast of the Epiphany, January 8, 2012.

Catholics Come Home� hopes to inspire as many as one million souls to come home to local parishes. This evangelization goal is based on statistical census results from Catholics Come Home� media initiatives that have aired in 30 past partner dioceses, ranging from Chicago to Seattle and Boston to Atlanta. Where these ads have aired, Mass attendance has increased an average of 10%, and helped over 300,000 people home to the Church, just since 2008.

The bilingual Catholics Come Home� commercials are scheduled to air on CBS, NBC, Univision, TBS, USA, TNT, CNN, FoxNews, and other networks during shows like 60 Minutes, NCIS, Kennedy Center Honors, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, Jay Leno, O�Reilly, major sports, and highly rated sitcoms. Viewers will be directed to their parish and will learn more at CatholicsComeHome.org or CatolicosRegresen.org (Spanish).

According to a recent CARA Catholic Poll (CCP), only 33% of U.S. Catholics attend weekly Mass. That means 42.7 million, or two-thirds of U.S. Catholics, are not going to Mass. The number of Americans identifying themselves as non-religious/secular increased 110% from 1990 to 2000, now 13.2% of the total population. The average American spends 38 hours per week consuming media, with TV and internet being the top two choices. Mormons, Christian Scientists, and Atheists are now advertising.

�These inspiring messages are sponsored by 30,000 Catholic families who want to invite neighbors, relatives, and co-workers to the largest family reunion in modern history� said Founder, Tom Peterson.

To view the national "EPIC" commercial, visit:
YouTube link - http://www.youtube.com/user/CatholicsComeHome#p/u/1/YI12UT5Ebuc
or
www.CatholicsComeHome.org/Advent

To schedule an interview with Tom Peterson, President and Founder of Catholics Come Home�, please contact Yvonne Marchese, Executive Director, at 678-585-7886 x101, or by e-mail to yvonne@catholicscomehome.org

CatholicsComeHome.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit media apostolate, dedicated to producing and airing Catholic evangelism television ads on local, national and international television networks.

Contact

CatholicsComeHome.org
http://news.catholicscomehome.org/?p=1613 GA, 30077 US
Yvonne Marchese - Executive Director,

Keywords

Catholics Come Home, Evangelization, Prime-time, National, Tom Peterson

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