In a press launch, Pray.com — a digital platform for faith-based content material, prayer and religious group engagement — says it’s being faraway from the Apple App Retailer in mainland China.
This determination aligns with the Chinese language authorities’s insurance policies on Iinternet publishing and considerably impacts Pray.com‘s mission to develop religion and domesticate group on a worldwide scale, in line with Steve Gatena, founder and CEO of Pray.com. A direct consequence of this motion is that people in China will now not have the flexibility to take part within the Nationwide Day of Prayer livestream via Pray.com.
This revocation indicators a change from earlier insurance policies, which allowed the Christian prayer app to minister within the Communist nation. “Since beginning Pray.com we’ve grown accustomed to constructive relations with China. President Xi has allowed for the printing of practically 150 million Bibles per yr, and President Trump ensured that Bibles have been exempt from Chinese language tariffs,” mentioned cofounder Michael Lynn.
Steve Gatena, founder and CEO of Pray.com, expressed that “in response to those limitations, our workforce is exploring different avenues to ship our content material and companies to individuals in mainland China. As we work on an answer, I wish to personally prolong an invite to President Xi Jinping to affix us for this yr’s Nationwide Day of Prayer occasion in Washington, D.C.”
