Pope tweets on Church’s mission of witnessing to Christ

September 23, 2013 - Pope Francis on Monday posted a tweet underscoring the Church’s main mission of witnessing to its founder. “The Church has no other meaning and finality than to witness to Jesus. May we not forget this,” the Pope wrote on his micro-blogging Twitter account, @Pontifex. The papal account in 9 languages has nearly 9 million followers, with Spanish-speakers accounting for over 3.7 million and English speakers just crossing the 3 million mark. Also on Monday, the Vatican Secretariat of State . posted its own tweet: “Victims of contemporary slavery become a mere commodity in the market of consumerism.” The tweet on the Twitter account @Terza Loggia was posted by Archbishop Silbano Tomasi, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations and Specialized Organizations in Geneva, and to the World Trade Organization.