Vatican City, May 19, 2018 / 10:27 am
Sharing the Gospel with people at the peripheries might not even require stepping outside the door, Pope Francis said Saturday, encouraging Christians to evangelize through encounters in the "digital world."
Especially for young people, "the ends of the earth...are quite relative and always easily 'navigable,'" he said May 19. "The digital world - the social networks that are so pervasive and readily available - dissolves borders, eliminates distances, and reduces differences."
But if we lack a "sincere gift of our lives," he continued, "we could well have countless contacts but never share in a true communion of life. To share in the mission to the ends of the earth demands a gift of oneself in the vocation that God, who has placed us on this earth, chooses to give us."
The pope's words were published in a message on the theme, "Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel to all," published ahead of the 92nd World Missionary Day, which will take place Oct. 21.