Source: Fiji Sun
SUVA, FIJI, February 1, 2002: Christian churches here say the government breached protocol by not consulting them on the establishment of a new Christian TV station, Trinity Fiji. They object to the evangelical leanings of the new station. “If it was a TV station that preached a mature and radical message of Jesus according to the scriptures, and according to Christina tradition, fine. But the example of American Christianity that is come through the Pacific these days doesn’t tend to be that. It tends to be fundamentalist,” stated a Catholic social worker. The station transmits programs from the Texas-based Trinity Broadcasting Network. Mainstream Christians in Fiji have for years complained about the incursion of evangelical movements who have targeted not the Hindus, the usual objects of evangelism here, but fellow Christians, especially the Catholics.