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Nicaragua (Rose & Schultze 1992: 415-451).48 This project was fiercely criticized for the ideological inclination in favour of the Nicaraguan counter-revolution.\u000AThe IFD church has a radio station \u2018Radio Exclusiva\u2019 and owns television Channel 27. Rigoberto Galvez, the manager of this channel wrote a book Teolog\u00EDa de la Comunicaci\u00F3n (2001) in which he presents an analysis of the media and provides guidelines about how to use them. The ESH circulates the vision and messages of pastor Caballeros through \u2018Stereo Visi\u00F3n\u2019 and their twenty one booster channels in FM in all the country. \u2018Radio Viva\u2019 [a private station], \u2018Rhema Stereo\u2019 of the \u2018Iglesia Ebenezer\u2019, Radio Exclusiva of IFG church and others, have a big influence among NPL and other evangelicals.49 These radio stations play religious music, preaching, family counselling, teachings and some cultural programmes.\u000AChannel 27 introduced the daily programme \u2018Good day\u2019 which offers information, orientation and help in health, education and other issues. Although these stations have their own programmes some of them do depend on imported material especially from the United States. In spite of criticism from some analysts of these mass media, the researcher observed that several programmes were well accepted by both Evangelicals and Catholics. These people call the stations or testify in some programmes about some benefit they have received. The Catholic audience has also used the same strategy as the Evangelicals with regard to radio broadcasting. They acquired several radio frequencies to reach their faithful and to counterbalance the Protestant advance.50\u000ASome of the Neo-Pentecostal media has been criticized for the so called television marathons because of their emphasis in raising money. They ask viewers to make financial pacts or deals with God which are supposed to enable them to get out of the debt of\u000A48 Susan Rose & Quintin Schultze in their analysis of mass media in Guatemala show the influence received from the United States (1992: 415-451).\u000A49 The field of Evangelical radio diffusion had been around for several decades, the Neo-Pentecostal thrust exceeded them in number and volume. In a measure they errupted and captured an audience which had been only in the hands of a few stations such as the \u2018Radio Cultural\u2019 of the Central American Mission (CAM International), \u2018Radio Vea\u2019 of the Elim church and \u2018Uni\u00F3n Radio\u2019 of the Adventist church,\u2019 and Alianza Stereo\u2019 of the Guatemalan Evangelical Alliance Church and some others.\u000A50 Some stations such as \u2018Radio Mar\u00EDa\u2019 and \u2018Kyrios\u2019 were installed just next to the evangelical frequencies and broadcast similar programmes.\u000A 93\u000A