The Catholic church has launched a new online application allowing faithfuls across the world to pray with Pope Francis without necessarily traveling to Vatican City.
Francis launched Catholic’s latest application known as Click to Pray on Sunday, January 20, during a church service at St Peter’s Square in Vatican City.
The app under Catholic’s Worldwide Network of Prayer with the Pope digital platform enables users to know what the Pope is praying for so that they could join him in corporate prayers for issues like world peace and comfort for victims of high magnitude atrocities like terrorism.
“Click to Pray will allow all the faithful to accompany the Pope in a mission for compassion for the world,” read a statement on http://www.clicktopray.org website.
Pope Francis leads over 1.3 billion Roman Catholic faithfuls who will now be able to pray together with him courtesy of the new technological advancement by the church.
The pontiff called on faithful world over to pray for 170 victims who drowned in Mediterranean Sea after two boats from Morocco and Libya capsized in two separate incidences in January 2019. “My heart is with the 170 Mediterranean victims.
They were looking for better lives and could have been victims of human trafficking. Let’s pray for them and those responsible for the deaths,” he said.