Pope tells Vodafone to ‘promote development, not
spread bad news’
(Vatican Radio) Pope
Francis met with the directors of the ‘Vodafone Foundation’ in a private
audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Wednesday, telling them to ‘be
constructive’ and make religious text available to more people.
The foundation is promoting
an initiative called ‘Instant Schools for Africa’, which aims to provide online
educative resources to young people on the African continent.
Pope Francis expressed his
appreciation of the initiative and said it promotes “a more inclusive and
familial world capable of offering development opportunities to people in
social groups at risk of exclusion”.
He suggested such initiatives
should take care “to supply young people also with some notions of method, so
that they learn not only to use instruments but to use them as
instruments, becoming capable of using them more freely and critically”.
The Pope also expressed his
desire that “among the resources offered to young people, there be access to
the sacred texts of various religions in different languages. This would be a
beautiful sign of attention to the religious dimension, so rooted in the
African peoples, and of encouragement for interreligious dialogue.”
In conclusive off-the-cuff
remarks, he added, “I really like what I’ve heard [about this project] – it’s
constructive – and nowadays there is a need to be constructive, to do things
which promote human advancement and not only to see bombs fall on innocent
people, children, sick people, and entire cities. Build, and not destroy!”
(Devin Sean Watkins)
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