Kryzysztof Gawrysiak said Pope Francis blessed their prayer initiative and said he would speak about it at World Youth Day 2023, which will be in Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 1–6.
Pray4teens.org is currently in four languages: Polish, English, Italian, and Ukrainian.
On the homepage for each language, there is a button to click if you are a teenager who wants prayers and another button to click if you are a person who wants to pray for a teen.
According to the initiative’s founders, it is an ecumenical project, because each person is encouraged to pray for his or her spiritually adopted teen in whatever way he or she feels called to.
And while the project is completely anonymous, those praying are also encouraged to pray for someone by name.
The rate of known suicide attempts among youth is so high worldwide, Gawrysiak said, that if you decide to pray for “Jose,” the chances are very strong there is a young “Jose” somewhere in need of those prayers.