The joyful spirit of a six-year-old girl has attracted 28 million views, and counting, after her mother shared a video of her daughter performing a church choir on Facebook. Loren Patterson enthusiastic performance in a church choir stole the show. Have look at the video (Click on the picture. You may need to turn off the mute.) .
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook can play a role that churches once filled
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
Mark Zuckerberg says he wants Facebook users to start playing a similar role to pastors in churches; bringing communities together. “People who go to church are more likely to volunteer and give to charity — not just because they’re religious, but because they’re part of a community,” he said. “A church doesn’t just come together. It Read more
Pope and Facebook founder – communication technologies could alleviate poverty and encourage hope
Friday, September 2nd, 2016
Facebook and similar communications’ technologies could be used to alleviate poverty, encourage the culture of encounter and bring a message of hope, especially to the most disadvantaged. This week’s meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of social networking giant Facebook, looked at ways to achieve this. The meeting Read more
Silicon Valley’s Hippest Church Is Going Public
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016Facebook’s the way to go to entice the young and the hip to church. Use startup buzzwords, a slick website and catchy music. That seems to be the current answer to the question: How do you market religion to the worker who has everything? At Easter, C3 Silicon Valley (C3SV) — an independent offshoot of Read more
UK Catholic and Anglican heads in first live Facebook event
Friday, June 3rd, 2016The heads of the Anglican and Catholic churches in the United Kingdom produced their first joint Facebook Live video last week. Archbishop Justin Welby and Cardinal Vincent Nichols took part in an unscripted discussion from Lambeth Palace. They answered questions that came in and spoke on a variety of topics including Pentecost and prayer. One Read more
Save your marriage; unfriend your spouse on Facebook
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015
Couples who delete each other on Facebook are more likely to stay together, according to relationship expert Ian Kerner. The New York-based therapist claims that unfriending your significant other on social media can put the spark back into a relationship. Even better, he says, people should delete their Facebook accounts entirely to free up more Read more
Priests locked out of Facebook for using ‘Father’ title
Tuesday, September 1st, 2015US priests are being locked out of Facebook because they use the title “Father” as part of their name on their personal page. Facebook’s policy bans “titles of any kind” – including doctor, professor or president – from being included in one’s name on a personal page. The banning of prominent Washington priest Msgr Charles Read more
Facebook is Catholic and Twitter is Protestant, priest says
Friday, May 22nd, 2015Facebook is Catholic and Twitter is Protestant, according to a UK Catholic priest and moral theologian. Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith wrote that for “a digital illustration of respective theological worldviews, look at the two giants of social media”. The priest wrote that Facebook is “cheerful, friendly, conciliatory” and “tells the faithful how they must proceed step Read more