{"id":34889,"date":"2014-07-27T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=34889"},"modified":"2014-07-27T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T15:59:00","slug":"ukraine-kiev-cathedral-launches-prayer-and-guidance-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=34889","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: Kiev cathedral launches prayer and guidance app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Orthodox Christian Ukrainians in search of spiritual guidance need look no further than their smartphones, after a cathedral in the capital Kiev launched its own prayer app.<\/p>\n<p>The Svyato-Troyitskyy (Holy Trinity) Cathedral in the city&#8217;s Troyeshchyna district has officially endorsed the iPhone app, dreamt up by Kiev University history student Volodymyr Shemarov,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kiev.vgorode.ua\/news\/230812-prochytano-o-kyeve-chto-pyshut-y-hovoriat-o-horode-utrom-24-yuilia\">the V Gorode website reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old says this is the first mobile platform for any church in a former Soviet state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Young people rarely go to church, preferring to sit at their computers and visit social networks,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to pique their interest somehow by integrating the church with mobile technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The app lets you &#8220;enter a virtual church to pray, seek inner peace and ask a priest for advice&#8221;, as well as check service times.<\/p>\n<p>The priests themselves are actively promoting the app, and even made an announcement about it in church.<\/p>\n<p>Shemarov tells the Interfax news agency that he hopes to design apps for as many more churches as possible in order to help believers communicate through mobile technology,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdigger.ru\/iphone-ipod\/ukrainskie-svyashhenniki-predlagayut-molitsya-s-pomoshhyu-iphone.html\">the app store MacDigger says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orthodox Christian Ukrainians in search of spiritual guidance need look no further than their smartphones, after a cathedral in the capital Kiev launched its own prayer app. The Svyato-Troyitskyy (Holy Trinity) Cathedral in the city&#8217;s Troyeshchyna district has officially endorsed the iPhone app, dreamt up by Kiev University history student Volodymyr Shemarov,\u00a0the V Gorode website [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-34889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}