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washingtonpost.com and Newsweek's On Faith Features Special Coverage During Pope Benedict XVI's Visit to Washington, D.C

Business Wire, April 14, 2008

Live Webcast Presented By On Faith Founders Sally Quinn and Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham

Partnership with EWTN, Global Catholic Network, Provides Exclusive Interviews with President George W. Bush and Joseph Ratzinger Before Becoming Pope

WASHINGTON -- On Faith, the joint washingtonpost.com and Newsweek feature devoted to the intersection of religion and news, today launches special coverage to coincide with Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States April 15-18.

On Faith founders and co-moderators Sally Quinn of The Washington Post and Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham will present "The Pope Comes to America," a live webcast featuring a panel of religious leaders, scholars and Washington Post reporters offering deep perspectives and varying points-of-view on the significance of the Pope's visit.

The program will stream live at http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith on April 16 and April 17. Eugene Robinson will join On Faith co-moderator Sally Quinn as co-anchor for the first webcast. Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn with co-anchor the second day.

The webcast will also incorporate exclusive coverage from EWTN, The Global Catholic Network, including the only interview with President Bush about the Pope's visit and the only English interview of Pope Benedict before he became Pope, conducted by Raymond Arroyo, news director and host of "The World Over Live" for EWTN. Arroyo will also blog about the papal visit from behind-the-scenes.

On Faith will also air Quinn's exclusive video interviews with Thomas Bohlin, U.S. vicar of Opus Dei, and Barbara Blaine, a clergy abuse victim and founder and president of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP).

In addition to its video programming during the Pope's visit, On Faith's standing panel of religious leaders will explore "The Crisis in Catholic America" in a discussion about what the Pope can do to address the dramatic decline in U.S. Church attendance. Bloggers from different faith traditions including Muslim Eboo Patel and Catholic thinker Anthony Stevens-Arroyo will offer real-time commentary. Well-known Catholics including Richard John Neuhaus, William Byron, George Weigel and Thomas Reese will weigh in on the U.S. Church's challenges and its tensions with Rome.

"On Faith provides an exciting and unique discussion on the major impact religion has in today's world. Pope Benedict's visit gives us yet another opportunity to connect users with our panel of distinguished scholars, theologians, journalists and leaders for a multi-faceted, often controversial dialogue of faith," said Quinn.

washingtonpost.com's complete coverage of Pope Benedict's visit to the U.S., including continuous live video of the Pope's events and user-generated photos from his visit, will be accessible from both On Faith and washingtonpost.com's homepage at http://www.washingtonpost.com.

For more information, visit http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith.> About On Faith

As a global interactive online feature on washingtonpost.com and Newsweek.com, On Faith tackles one of the world's most pervasive yet least understood topics by offering varied perspectives and open dialogue. Each week moderators Sally Quinn of The Washington Post and Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham post a question for On Faith's more than one hundred panelists of varying faiths from around the world. The result is a global multi-denominational conversation that readers can join by offering their own opinions and by posting comments and questions at any time.

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