“Facebook’s New Prayer Posts Feature – Request and Offer Prayers within Groups”

Facebook spent a year researching how to include a specific section for prayers and prayers within the social network. It would be a new type of posting where group members could offer their prayers or ask for prayers for other people.

Post prayers feature lets you request and offer prayers

The feature would allow posts in which share prayers or ask for prayers via messages shared only between members of a group. The discovery of this new feature was communicated via his Twitter profile by Robert P. Jones, CEO of PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute), a non-profit organization dedicated to studying the confluence of religion, values ​​and of public life. Jones discovered the feature when a pop-up appeared indicating the existence of this new feature when accessing his Facebook profile.

The pop-up featured the new “Prayer Posts” feature announcing that it allows members of a Facebook group to be able to request and offer prayers by posting a new message to that group. The group administrator has the power to decide who can create themin addition to managing this new type of publication, as one of the novelties that Facebook periodically adds to the management of its groups.

From Facebook it has been confirmed that this is a function in the testing phase, which is in progress with selected groups of users, limited for the moment to the United States. Although no further details were provided, it seems reasonable to infer that it would be religious themed groups.

Nona Jones, Director of Global Relations with Religious Entities at Facebook, released a statement in which she said the social network’s mission is to provide its users with the tools to build communities within the larger community that exists in the world, which means fostering communities that have their common bond in faith.