Click to Pray : Pope Francis launches app so followers can join him online
View(s):The days when you prayed by putting your hands together appear long gone – now even Pope Francis is asking his flock to go online instead.
In a sign of the times, the head of the Roman Catholic church recently launched a new app allowing the faithful to pray with him.
He presented the Vatican’s latest digital platform, known as the Worldwide Network of Prayer with the Pope, during his traditional Sunday address to tens of thousands of people in St Peter’s Square.
The new app, called Click to Pray, will inform the church’s 1.3 billion followers what he is praying for – such as world peace or the population of a country hit by a natural disaster.
The hope is that Catholics will then join him.
Pope Francis, who once said he was a ‘disaster’ with technology, swiped a tablet to launch the app, turning to the priest who held it for him to ask, ‘Did I do it?’ – before the priest nodded.
It has been launched ahead of World Youth Day. A Vatican statement said the app would allow the faithful to ‘accompany the Pope in a mission of compassion’
Courtesy -Daily Mail