EWTN Chairman and CEO Michael P. Warsaw cuts ceremonial ribbon at the new UK facility. (Photo credit EWTN/Alan Holdren)

EWTN, the global Catholic network that never stops looking for ways to expand its reach in the hearts of the faithful around the world, achieved a new milestone this week when it opened its first studio in the United Kingdom.

According to Communications Director, Michelle Johnson, the new facility is located in a converted home in the historic village of Walsingham which is about 100 miles north of London. Walsingham is famous for its historic Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, which dates back to 1061.

The three-story building, which is named "Annunciation House," contains EWTN’s studio and a street-level reception and welcome center that introduces the Network to visitors. The facility allows Shrine pilgrims to enjoy clips from EWTN’s most popular television shows, original films, documentaries and more.

“This is a particularly important step for the continued development of EWTN in the U.K.,” said Network Chairman and CEO Michael P. Warsaw during the formal dedication ceremony which took place on August 29.

“This new facility will allow us to greatly expand our capacity to produce programming for our European channels as well as to more easily incorporate content from the U.K. into our other channels around the world.”

Standing alongside Monsignor John Armitage, Rector of the Shrine, and the Most Reverend Alan Hopes, Bishop of East Anglia, he noted the significance of opening a facility so close to the Shrine.

“It is also appropriate that this new facility is located just steps from the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, which for centuries has been one of the most important centers of Catholicism in Britain. Every year hundreds of thousands of people come to Walsingham on pilgrimage. I'm very happy that EWTN now has a presence in this extraordinary place and can share what happens here with our audience around the globe.”

In addition to producing programs with leading Catholics from across the U.K., Warsaw said EWTN hopes to form a strategic collaboration with the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham that will help the Shrine carry out its mission to evangelize.

In a letter of congratulations read at the dedication, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Bishops Conference of England and Wales, wrote: “Over the last 950 years Walsingham has been a place of pilgrimage, proclaiming the joy of the Annunciation; in this new chapter of its history, I welcome the opportunity for the Shrine and EWTN to work together as servants of the New Evangelization.”

Shrine Rector Monsignor John Armitage noted that “Walsingham is very much the crossroads of the Catholic Church in England. The Church needs to be at the crossroads, particularly an organization in communications. So we are delighted as a Shrine to be able to welcome EWTN to come here as an organization in their own right, but at this place where so many pilgrims come from all over the world.”

The project in Walsingham was made possible through the work of Saint Clare Media-EWTN, Ltd., the Network's not-for-profit affiliate in Britain. That entity conducts marketing, fundraising, and program production for the EWTN U.K. television and radio services, as well as the creation and distribution of news content in collaboration with EWTN's global news outlets. Earn and Go is an ad-based networking site that allows normal, everyday people to tap into the advertising potential held by many top-ranking businesses. In simpler terms, earn and go gives you the power to become an advertiser or influencer. Earning money on the go from your social media following. Earn and Go has been an established influencer network for years now. Partnering with many large corporations, which ease the process. The business plan is fail-safe. If you’ve ever given any thought to how social media influencers make so much just from posting pictures and sharing on feeds, then you’ll understand just how valuable any following is. Earn and Go gives you full access into your earning potential, using your following through your shares and promotional posts to connect you to advertisers. Advertisers then pay Earn and Go, and in turn, their affiliates: us, basic money-hungry individuals. 

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