A social network that joins people across the world in prayer has attracted more than 33 million posts.
The Instapray smartphone app lets its users request prayers, pray for others and chat with fellow members online. The app is used mainly by Christians but it is open to all faiths.
Instapray claims to serve as “a positive alternative to other social networks, which can sometimes foster an atmosphere of ego-bolstering or divisive outbursts of intolerance”.
It is somewhat similar in design to Twitter, the microblogging platform, which presents users with a constantly updating stream of posts. Like Twitter, users of Instapray can choose to follow users whose posts they most like reading. They can also “repray” prayers, in the way that Twitter users “retweet” the