New U.S. Television Series on Religion "I believe" also available online

Washington D.C.,/USA | 12.04.2007 | APD | Media

"I believe", a new weekly half-hour television series, has begun distribution to U.S. Public Broadcasting Service stations and is now available for online viewing at www.ibelieve-tv.com

Each week veteran television host and interviewer Dennis Wholey visits a different church, synagogue, mosque or temple to learn about that religion or faith. The centrepiece of each program is a conversation with the religious leader of the featured house of worship, a visit inside, and a brief look at a typical weekly service.

In the first program series is an interview with Roman Catholic Cardinal William H. Keeler of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and a video tour of the historic Basilica of the Assumption with Mark Potter, Executive Director of the Basilica Historic Trust.

Wholey also interviewed Roscoe J. Howard III, Secretary of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America on the history and basic beliefs of the Church. The crew also traveled to Sligo Church in Takoma Park, Md., to do a tour and talk to its pastor, Ron Halvorsen about weekly services at the church.

The producer Dennis Wholey, a veteran television host, is also nationally known as the New York Times best-selling author of The Courage to Change and four additional books on personal growth. Wholey’s latest book is The Miracle of Change. His new book, Why Do I Keep Doing That?, will be published in Spring 2007.

The mission of the 26 weekly, half-hour series is to help viewers understand the basic beliefs of various faiths in a time when respect for others is at the heart of our ever increasingly diversified culture and country.

Programs already in production are: Roman Catholic, Baptist, Seventh-day Adventist, Islam, Lutheran, Hindu, Evangelical, and Islam.

Upcoming programs include: Episcopal, Judaism, Methodist, Jehovah's Witness, Assemblies of God, Pentecostal, Buddhism, Latter-day Saints.

The series is produced by Dennis Wholey Enterprises, which currently offers "This is America", the weekly public affairs series seen on PBS stations, the American Life Television Network (ALTN) on cable and in 160 countries via Voice of America Television (VoATV).

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