Father Jean Farda Tanisma never imagined himself as a radio disc jockey, but that’s what he is these days: at the microphone welcoming listeners to the radio station he runs at St. Joseph’s Church in Astoria.

Father Jean Farda Tanisma never imagined himself as a radio disc jockey, but that’s what he is these days: at the microphone welcoming listeners to the radio station he runs at St. Joseph’s Church in Astoria.
On Sunday, July 31, Father Vincent Chirichella, pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Astoria, blessed “Rest of the Holy Family,” a new painting inside the church depicting Joseph, Mary, and the Baby Jesus.
When Yuliana Restrepo was a teenager, she fell in with a bad crowd and now admits, “lost my way for a while.” But one night, she had a dream about that St. Pope John Paul II that changed her life.