The Vatican launches’ Click to Pray 2.0 ′, a new version of its app for Catholics to pray with the Pope

Available in the Android and Apple digital stores, with an agenda that allows you to accompany the Pope Francisco during his prayers and a compilation of the requests made during the day by the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church. This is the new version of Click to Pray, the app launched by the Vatican so that his faithful have a new version – very typical of these times – when they pray.

On Tuesday 19, a group of ecclesiastical officials gave a conference from the Vatican Press Room to present the new version of the application that was launched in 2016 by the Pope’s World Prayer Network.

“Praying is not a waste of time, as we sometimes think. Prayer is like the seed in the darkness of the earth, which will bear fruit in due time”Father Frederic Fornos, international director of the Pope’s World Prayer Network, told the media.

Lucio Ruiz, secretary of the Dicastery of Communication of the Holy See, said for his part that “digital culture has a lot to offer (to) reach and accompany men and women wherever they are, including those who may be in geographic and existential peripheries”.

In that sense, he added, the app “It is not intended to invalidate other places and ways of praying. It is one more way to reach people who want or need a new way”.

According to an article in Vatican News, Click to Pray 2.0 is available in 7 languages ​​and in the five years it has been operating it has registered more than 2.5 million users.

“Every year, more than 300,000 users pray together with Pope Francis for his prayer intentions”, Mentions the statement presented during the conference and collected by Vatican News.

A TECHNOLOGICAL CHURCH

Since his election as leader of the Catholic Church, Francisco has used social media as one of his main channels to reach his community.

An example of this are the more than 50 million people who saw his tweets on Saturday 16, in which he spoke about social justice, according to Vatican data collected by Reuters.

In the aforementioned messages, Francis urged countries to stop aggressions, blockades, and sanctions against other nations; In addition, he urged the media to end post-truth, misinformation and defamation, which he described as an unhealthy obsession with the scandal.

WHAT’S NEW IN THE APP

This is the first Click to Pray update since its launch. Among the main novelties included in this version is the agenda with which the user will be able to program the times and topics on which they will ask during their prayers, so that they coincide with those of the Pope.

“The prayer agenda helps Click to Pray users to organize the times and content with which they wish to pray, according to their sensitivity, their tastes, their needs”, Bettina Raed, Click to Pray international coordinator, highlighted, according to Rome Reports.

The app also has a tab in which the community can raise their requests so that other parishioners can accompany them in their requests, as found Trade.

On the other hand, it has a so-called “school of prayer”, A tool that is intended to serve as a guide to begin to pray and form groups with users from all over the world.