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‘iPriest’ launches Arabic app for Catholic prayers to skirt Islamic bans

Apr 14, 2014 12:01 pm By Robert Spencer

Paolo-Padrini_2881992bThe fact that this app is necessary at all is telling. In all too many Muslim countries, non-Muslims are subject to strict censorship. In non-Muslim countries, non-Muslims censor themselves to avoid offending the delicate sensitivities of Muslims. Where in the world can the truth about Islam and jihad be spoken freely? In a rapidly diminishing arena.

“‘iPriest’ launches Arabic app for Catholic prayers to skirt Islamic bans,” by Tom Kington, the Telegraph, April 14:

A tech-savvy priest who has worked on social media technology for the Vatican is launching a new app he claims will challenge censorship of Christian prayers in Muslim countries.

Launched on Saturday through iTunes, iBreviary in Arabic will give Arabic-speaking priests all the daily prayers they need on their iPhones, enabling them to skirt bans in the sale of the Catholic breviary in parts of the Islamic world.

“This app opens a door for religious freedom,” said Father Paolo Padrini, 41, who has earned the nickname ‘the iPriest’ for his previous work advising the Pontifical Council for Social Communications on new media and his coordination of papal web portal Pope2You.

Pope Francis is a firm backer of new media initiatives including his Twitter feed, calling the internet “a gift from God”.

In 2008, Father Padrini launched the original iBreviary, an app providing priests with all the daily prayers they required on their iPhones or iPads, meaning they did not have carry their printed breviaries around with them.
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“The app has become a must-have for priests and cardinals and has been really appreciated with the Catholic Church,” said Father Padrini, who added that one satisfied customer was the influential Italian cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, once touted as papal material before he died in 2012.

“Now, with the launch of the Arabic version, the app can be used in those Muslim countries where the breviary is banned from sale and where, in some countries, you cannot legally even possess one,” said Father Padrini.

The app for iPhones is free and the Arabic is produced by volunteer translators, he said. The iPad version will available in three weeks and the Android version by the summer.

Father Padrini said assisting Christian congregations in Muslim countries was increasingly important as priests suffer persecution and violent attacks.

“The Catholic who prays in Arabic is a symbol of religious coexistence and peace,” he said. “I hope that the app is seen as a peaceful and not as a hostile gesture. And I hope it is not censored.”

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  1. Fr. Basil says

    Apr 14, 2014 at 12:18 pm

    There’s nothing wrong with this. Orthodox, Melkites, Maronites, and other ancient churches in the middle east were using Arabic for worship before mahometanism was even invented.

    Who do you think it was who translated the works of ancient Greeks into Arabic to start with? It wasn’t the mahometans, but Arabic speaking Christians at least two centuries before the rise of mahometanism.

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 14, 2014 at 1:11 pm

    Aye, Fr Basil, credit where credit is due. The church can make the gospel available through the use of technology. The works of Robert Spencer especially are urgently needed in Arabic, Indonesian, Turkish and Urdu! A lot of translating.

  3. Salah says

    Apr 14, 2014 at 6:10 pm

    My humble contribution:
    The Perfect Man of Islam…IN ARABIC
    الرجل المثالي في الإسلام

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-arabic.html

  4. Saleem Smith says

    Apr 14, 2014 at 8:33 pm

    Preach another religion other than Islam in an Islamic country and you are welcoming death.

  5. Catherine (Cathy) Harrell says

    Apr 15, 2014 at 11:56 am

    I have enjoyed iBrevary for my hourly prayer in English for several months now. I am very glad that my Arabic speaking brothers and sisters will have access to this wonderful app and the beautiful liturgy of the church.

  6. Frank Courtney says

    Apr 15, 2014 at 7:04 pm

    “Where in the world can the truth about Islam and jihad be spoken freely?”

    In this little corner of England it will be as long as I draw breath.

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