Uganda Catholic Television expands reach, goes live on GoTV Channel 412

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February 3, 2026

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Uganda Catholic Television expands reach, goes live on GoTV Channel 412

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Uganda Catholic Television (UCTV), the first-ever Catholic television station in Uganda, has marked a major milestone in its evangelisation journey with its official availability on GoTV Channel 412, expanding its reach to Catholic households across the country and beyond.

When the Bishops of Uganda first announced the launch of UCTV in early 2020, the station’s broadcast was limited to a free-to-air signal covering a 60-kilometre radius around Kampala. At the time, the moment was historic, for the first time, the Catholic Church in Uganda had its own television platform dedicated to evangelisation, catechesis, social communication, and integral human development.

“I am glad to officially inform you that on Wednesday, 5th February 2020, Uganda Catholic Television (UCTV) was connected by Signet Uganda to transmit on Free to Air,” Bishop Joseph Franzelli, Chairman of the Social Communications Commission of the Uganda Episcopal Conference (UEC), announced in a statement dated February 10, 2020.

That announcement crowned nearly two years of intense fundraising and engagement with the Catholic community, as bishops, clergy, religious, and lay faithful rallied behind a shared vision to bring the Gospel into Ugandan homes through the power of television.

During a June 2018 press conference, the Bishops of Uganda revealed that they had secured a broadcasting license from the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), expressing hope that the station would one day achieve national coverage in service of evangelization and development.

By December 2018, the project had gathered momentum, with Church leaders confirming that preparations were at an advanced stage and renewing appeals for financial support from Christians across the country.

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UCTV’s programming includes Holy Mass, catechetical teachings, Church news, talk shows on family life and social issues, youth-centered content, and coverage of major ecclesial events in Uganda and the universal Church.

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Wednesday of the Fourth week in Ordinary Time

2nd book of Samuel 24,2.9-17.

King David said to Joab and the leaders of... the army who were with him, "Tour all the tribes in Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and register the people, that I may know their number."
Joab then reported to the king the number of people registered: in Israel, eight hundred thousand men fit for military service; in Judah, five hundred thousand.
Afterward, however, David regretted having numbered the people, and said to the LORD: "I have sinned grievously in what I have done. But now, LORD, forgive the guilt of your servant, for I have been very foolish."
When David rose in the morning, the LORD had spoken to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying:
"Go and say to David, 'This is what the LORD says: I offer you three alternatives; choose one of them, and I will inflict it on you.'"
Gad then went to David to inform him. He asked: "Do you want a three years' famine to come upon your land, or to flee from your enemy three months while he pursues you, or to have a three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider and decide what I must reply to him who sent me."
David answered Gad: "I am in very serious difficulty. Let us fall by the hand of God, for he is most merciful; but let me not fall by the hand of man."
Thus David chose the pestilence. Now it was the time of the wheat harvest when the plague broke out among the people. (The LORD then sent a pestilence over Israel from morning until the time appointed, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba died.)
But when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD regretted the calamity and said to the angel causing the destruction among the people, "Enough now! Stay your hand." The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
When David saw the angel who was striking the people, he said to the LORD: "It is I who have sinned; it is I, the shepherd, who have done wrong. But these are sheep; what have they done? Punish me and my kindred."

Psalms 32(31),1-2.5.6.7.

Blessed is he whose fault is taken away,
whose... sin is covered.
Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt,
in whose spirit there is no guile.

Then I acknowledged my sin to you,
my guilt I covered not.
I said, “I confess my faults to the LORD,”
and you took away the guilt of my sin.

For this shall every faithful man pray to you
in time of stress.
Though deep waters overflow,
they shall not reach him.

You are my shelter; from distress you will preserve me;
with glad cries of freedom you will ring me round.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 6,1-6.

Jesus departed from there and came to his... native place, accompanied by his disciples.
When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, "Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands!
Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.
Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house."
So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them.
He was amazed at their lack of faith.

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