{"id":6012,"date":"2020-06-25T23:14:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T23:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.67.150.191\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2020-06-25T23:14:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T23:14:46","slug":"tv1-apologizes-for-sisdac-pastors-sermons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=6012","title":{"rendered":"TV1 apologizes for SISDAC Pastor\u2019s Sermons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>APIA, SAMOA \u2013 25 JUNE 2020:<\/strong> TV1 has apologized \u201cfor any pain and discomfort inadvertently caused by the Samoa Independent Seventh Day Adventist Church&#8217;s religious sermons broadcast on television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The apology was issued after the Prime Minister called on the Attorney Generals\u2019 Office yesterday to initiate criminal libel investigations of the World Leader of the Samoan Independent Seventh Day Adventist Church Pastor, Wille Papu and TV1 Samoa following condemnation by MPs in Parliament of the Pastors&#8217; sermons. The sermons were labeled as inciting hatred and division between churches and individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have repeatedly raised our concerns with the church leaders,\u201d said TV1 CEO, Galumalemana Faiesea Matafeo in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have discontinued the broadcasts of the controversial sermons as from yesterday evening.\u00a0 SISDAC however, as a paying customer can still broadcast sermons purely on the word of God and without reference to any other church or beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not the intention of TV1 to discredit any person or any church nor to cause divisions amongst religious organizations in Samoa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take pride in providing equal access to broadcasting services to all members of our community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCensorship of church ministers\u2019 sermons has never been seen as necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe count on the integrity and noble judgments of Church Leaders and all Servants of God when it comes to matters of spiritual teachings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a consequence, we will now have to approve all religious sermons before broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe views expressed by SISDAC are not necessarily those of TV1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, our most sincere apologies,\u201d the CEO\u2019s statement ended.<\/p>\n<p>Samoa recently reinstated the criminal libel legislation targeting the media.<\/p>\n<p>The PM told Parliament yesterday that character assassination is worse than murder and he blamed the TV station for not paying attention to the sensitive content that was aired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APIA, SAMOA \u2013 25 JUNE 2020: TV1 has apologized \u201cfor any pain and discomfort inadvertently caused by the Samoa Independent Seventh Day Adventist Church&#8217;s religious sermons broadcast on television.\u201d The apology was issued after the Prime Minister called on the Attorney Generals\u2019 Office yesterday to initiate criminal libel investigations of the World Leader of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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