INTERNATIONAL: Pope Francis unveils his prayer profile in Click To Pray

Pope Francis has last weekend helped launch a new mobile app and online platform connecting people around the world in prayer.

The Holy Father presented “the official platform of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network: Click To Pray,” on Sunday 20 January after praying the Angelus with visitors gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

Joined by Jesuit Father Frederic Fornos, head of the international prayer network, holding a tablet displaying the platform, Pope Francis said it would be “here that I add my intentions and prayer requests for the church’s mission.”

The prayer network  (www.clicktopray.org), formerly called the Apostleship of Prayer, is a platform that invites men and women from around the world to accompany the Pope in a mission of compassion for the world. The Jesuit-run outreach that has given Catholics the Pope’s monthly prayer intentions since 1890.

It has a website and a mobile app, both for Android and iOS, with its social networks, available in six languages (Spanish, English, Italian, French, Portuguese and German).

The global prayer network started offering the prayer intentions on video over social media in 2016.

“I above all invite you, young people, to download the app, Click To Pray,” Pope Francis said, asking them to keep “praying together with me the rosary for peace, especially during World Youth Day in Panama” from 22 to 27 January 2019.

“Internet and social media are a resource in our era, a chance to stay in touch with others, to share values and plans and to express the desire to be a community. The web can also help us pray as a community, to pray together,” he said.

The website www.clicktopray.org and the mobile app – available for Android and iOS – are offered in six languages: Spanish, English, Italian, French, Portuguese and German. A version will soon be available in Vietnamese and Chinese, the site said.

Users are invited to “pray with the pope” using his monthly prayer intentions, to “pray every day” by receiving notifications and inspirational thoughts for prayer or reflection three times a day and to “pray with the network” where users, including Pope Francis, can share their prayers with others.

Click To Pray is the official prayer platform for World Youth Day 2019, which takes place in Panama from 22th to 27 January 2019.

For this event, the platform includes a special multimedia section to pray and meditate the Rosary for Peace.

Pope Francis has invited all Catholics, especially youth, to download the Click To Pray app, Click Here