ROSWELL, Ga. — The evangelization group Catholics Come Home is set to premiere a 13-episode television series that fosters engagement in the New Evangelization and interviews people who have recently returned to the Catholic faith.

“I believe God’s mercy is reaching the hearts of returnees, converts, agnostics and atheists through creative media, helping to bring them home,” Tom Peterson, founder and president of Catholics Come Home, said in a video announcement for the series.

“Join us as we travel across North America with incredible stories of redemption, as the Holy Spirit transforms souls.”

Gloria Sampson, a former atheist and linguistics professor, who is now an active Catholic, will be featured in the first episode, which will air on EWTN Sept. 4.

She will discuss her recent return to the Catholic Church after 52 years away from God. She credits seeing a Catholics Come Home commercial broadcast in Vancouver, Canada, with helping to inspire her return.

“All I want to do now is evangelize,” she said.

Each of the series’ half-hour episodes will also discuss evangelization.

The Catholics Come Home series will air on EWTN television every Thursday at 10pm Eastern. Episodes will be rebroadcast at 6pm on Sundays and can also be watched live online.

Guests include former fallen-away Catholics, atheists, agnostics and Protestants who have turned to or returned to the Catholic Church.

Episodes have been filmed in more than a dozen archdioceses and dioceses in the U.S. and Canada.

Catholics Come Home, which is based in Georgia, has broadcast many short segments on television that encourage inactive and former Catholics to return to the Church. They also reach out to those who have never been Catholic. The organization has produced segments in several different languages that have reached an audience of millions.

The apostolate says that, since 1998, it has helped 500,000-plus people “come home” to the Catholic Church.

The Catholics Come Home website is www.catholicscomehome.org.