Other countries that also participated were Spain, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Brazil, Honduras, Ukraine, Italy, Croatia, Australia, Indonesia — a majority Muslim country — and the Philippines, the country with the most Catholics in Asia, as well as others.
Páez also noted that the prayer is held in the streets “in the hispanic nations of the Americas, which are culturally Christian, to reclaim the public square for Our Lord Jesus Christ, because a lamp is not lit to be put under the bushel basket, but is placed up high so that it shines throughout the house.”
“We want to take up our call as men in the life of this Church, of this pilgrim Church that is also known as the Church militant,” he continued.
The general coordinator of the Knights of the Rosary apostolate also commented: “We want to soldier on in the army of Jesus Christ to be able to inspire other men to remember that the life of the Church is not only a place for meetings with positive thoughts, but that it’s a spiritual battle which represents to us the adventure for which it’s worth giving your life. We want to prepare ourselves for self-denial and sacrifice.”
One of the organizers of the Men’s Rosary in Buenos Aires, Segundo Carafi, explained that “the importance of this rosary lies in the fact that it is precisely men who want to bring back faith to public life, praying for the recovery of his own essence in a world that criticizes and attacks him.”
This demonstrates, he continued, that “faith is not only a woman’s thing and that the man, as the man of the family, the priest as such, is ready to fight in defense of his most absolute essence as a man, that today is something that is up for debate.”