Sikasso, 10 May, 2023 / 12:50 pm (ACI Africa).
Pope Francis has given his blessing to a program started in Poland to spiritually adopt struggling teenagers and pray for them by name.
Kryzysztof Gawrysiak and his wife, Aneta, spent more than two hours with Pope Francis at his Vatican residence on May 4.
During the visit, they were able to introduce their new online initiative, pray4teens.org, which they started after learning more about the rates of depression — and suicide attempts — among adolescents around the world.
“We strongly believe [the prayers are] helping,” Aneta Gawrysiak told CNA last week. “We’ve got a lot of examples, a lot of testimony that prayer is very powerful.”
Kryzysztof Gawrysiak said Pope Francis blessed their prayer initiative and said he would speak about it at World Youth Day 2023, which will be in Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 1–6.