Pope Francis To Hold Google Hangout On Thursday With Handicapped Children To Launch A New Platform; What Would It Be?

Interested to hang out with Pope Francis? The Vatican is offering an opportunity in a digital setting.

Pope Francis will have a Google Hangout on Thursday and will talk to the children in different countries.

"To promote a more inclusive form of education, Pope Francis will hold a Google Hangout with five handicapped children from various parts of the world on Thursday to launch an international project of cooperating through technology," Covering All Things Catholic wrote.

The Covering All Things Catholic added that "the videoconference will take place as the pope closes an international symposium held on Vatican grounds and organized by Scholas Occurrentes, the pontiff's pet project to promote education."

The Scholas Occurrentes or School Meeting is a network of schools worldwide, which is organized by José María del Corral and Enrique Palmeyro.

Furthermore, the Covering All Things Catholic wrote that del Corral said that Pope Francis is "convinced that the world is in crisis, and that the solution will come through education.

The Scholas, in partnership with Microsoft, IBM, Google and Globant will use the high tech media platforms nowadays to continue the "pope's press for dialogue and peace."

On Thursday, Pope Francis will launch the Scholas,Labs, a platform that will help people to generate innovative solutions about different educational problems

According to USA Today, Pope Francis will host the Google Hangout from the Vatican on Thursday at 10 am ET or 4p.m. Central European Time, from the Scholas Occurrentes Google+ page.

This will be the second time that Pope Francis holds a Google Hangout, the first was last September where he launched the Scholas.Social.

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