Pope invites the young to spread the friendship of Jesus
Vatican City, 4 January 2014: In a post on the social media on Saturday Pope Francis
invited the youth to spread the joy the friendship with Jesus. The Pontiff wrote on
his Twitter account @pontifex: “Dear young people, Jesus wants to be your friend,
and wants you to spread the joy of this friendship everywhere.”
The Pope’s
tweet on Saturday is a continuation of his invitation to the youth he made on 7th
December, when he wrote: Dear young people, put your talents at the service of
the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.
The Pope has now close
to 11 million followers on his Twitter account @Pontifex. And the re-tweeting of Pope’s
message is reported to be reaching at least 60 million people. The Pope’s English-language
handle alone has over 3 million followers. The papal tweets are published in nine
languages on the micro-blogging website. Source: VR Sedoc