Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Email the Pope!
Vatican, Mar. 07 (CWNews.com) - Pope John Paul II (bio - news) received more than 20,000 email messages, offering prayers and support, during the first two days of March, the Vatican has reported.
An email address for the Holy Father-- john_paul_ii@vatican.va-- was posted on the Vatican's web site last week. In two days, the Vatican received approximately 10,000 messages in English at that email address, along with over 6,000 in Spanish, 2,000 in Portuguese, 1,000 in Italian, and several hundred in both German and French. The email messages-- almost always brief messages assuring the Pontiff of prayers-- form only a part of volume of messages arriving at the Vatican. Letters arriving by mail and fax also number in the thousands.
An email address for the Holy Father-- john_paul_ii@vatican.va-- was posted on the Vatican's web site last week. In two days, the Vatican received approximately 10,000 messages in English at that email address, along with over 6,000 in Spanish, 2,000 in Portuguese, 1,000 in Italian, and several hundred in both German and French. The email messages-- almost always brief messages assuring the Pontiff of prayers-- form only a part of volume of messages arriving at the Vatican. Letters arriving by mail and fax also number in the thousands.
