{"id":56061,"date":"2025-12-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/?p=56061"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:52:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:52:57","slug":"two-colombian-priests-launch-an-evangelization-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/foco\/dos-sacerdotes-colombianos-lanzan-un-canal-de-evangelizacion\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest on Board. Two Colombian priests launch a successful evangelization channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

What began as a way to spiritually accompany the faithful during the pandemic lockdown has become a digital evangelization project with thousands of followers and a huge impact on social media. Priest on Board<\/em> was launched in March 2020, driven by two Colombian priests from Opus Dei, Santiago Villa and Luis Miguel Bravo. Both studied journalism at the University of La Sabana and later pursued theological studies in Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both felt the need to be close to their communities during the pandemic, when lockdown restricted many pastoral activities. Father Luis Miguel explains that \u201cWe decided to start recording short spiritual talks for the students at our schools. The first ones, dedicated to St. Joseph and the Annunciation, were so well received that, encouraged by many parents, we opened a YouTube channel. <\/em>YouTube and later <\/em>Instagram, thanks to the help of four volunteer collaborators located in Colombia, Madrid, and Guatemala.\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Variety of content<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since then, Priest on Board<\/em> has grown organically and creatively. With an approachable and flexible style\u2014which its creators compare to a bike ride\u2014they have produced a wide variety of formats: street videos, in-depth interviews, conversion testimonials, and participation in events such as World Youth Day in Lisbon. They have featured guests such as Carlo Acutis' mother, Eduardo Ver\u00e1stegui, and pro-life activist Lupe Batall\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the channel has developed a significant podcast lineup. Among the most popular are Meditating with Soccer<\/em>, where reflections on the Gospel are linked to current events in soccer; Meditating with Film or Literature<\/em>; Questions and Answers about Faith<\/em>; and more recently Meditate with The Chosen<\/em>, a space for spiritual meditations inspired by the successful series on the life of Jesus. This latest project even has its own website and the collaboration of priests from different countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key assistants<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As Father Luis Miguel explains, \u201cthe channel <\/em>Priest on Board would not be possible without the constant help of four collaborators who have been present since its inception in <\/em>Instagram. They are young women, professionals from different fields, who volunteered to help with tasks such as graphic design, video editing, social media management, and fan engagement. One of them, a mother of five, lives in Guatemala; another lives in Madrid; and the remaining two are in Colombia.\u201d<\/em>. Although they did not know each other at first, today they form a close-knit team that handles much of the work behind the scenes and has been instrumental in the channel's growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With nearly 84,000 followers on Instagram<\/em> and a growing community in YouTube<\/em> and audio platforms, Priest on Board<\/em> is today a benchmark of how creativity, faith, and friendship can bear fruit in the midst of adversity. Its mission, they assure us, \u201cremains the same: to help people pray with their daily lives and draw closer to God from anywhere.\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lo que comenz\u00f3 como una forma de acompa\u00f1ar espiritualmente a los fieles durante el confinamiento de la pandemia, se ha convertido en un proyecto de evangelizaci\u00f3n digital con miles de seguidores y gran impacto en redes sociales. Sacerdote a Bordo naci\u00f3 en marzo de 2020, impulsado por dos sacerdotes colombianos del Opus Dei, Santiago Villa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1166,"featured_media":56062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[549,548],"tags":[680],"class_list":["post-56061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evangelizacion","category-foco","tag-evangelizacion","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}