The Catholic Church of Colombia is spreading the word of God through Twitter after opening an account on December 12.
The Church was spurred on after Pope Benedict XVI became the first to evangelize through such unconventional methods.
The Twitter account is
registered under the name of Colombia’s Archbishop Ruben Salazar with
the intention of jumping on the Pope’s technological evangelization
bandwagon.
"Modern techniques offer superb service that we cannot miss, (...) if
the Holy Father has decided to open an account, it seemed important to
us that the Church in Colombia has the ability to communicate with
others through Twitter accounts," claimed the Archbishop.
The first ever tweet went out on Wednesday December 12, thanking the
Holy Father for his innovative methods of expressing his faith.
After two days and 15 tweets the account already is followed by over
1,300 people and is growing rapidly, however the Colombian Church
refused to follow anyone but the Holy Father himself.