La Nicaraguayenne Xiskya Valladares demande à l'Église de "ne pas rester en arrière" dans le monde numérique.

Vatican City, October 4 (EFE) - Nicaraguan nun Xiskya Valladares urged on Friday that the Church "not fall behind" in technological advancement, increasing its presence in the digital realm and social networks, an area in which the well-known "digital missionary" is currently working during the XVI Synod of Bishops.

"We have been working since the Synod began for the Church to understand that synodality and its mission are also in digital environments," Valladares said at the daily press conference on the discussions held during the working session of the Synod participants, which started this week.

According to the nun, known as "the tweeting nun" for her more than 77,000 followers on social network X, the Church needs to catch up to occupy its virtual space.

"All this journey comes with technological change, with artificial intelligence, and the Church cannot be left behind," she said.

According to Valladares, this task is "one more aspect of the mission" of the Church itself, where missionaries have been working on this for years and are gaining strength in the digital sphere.

"In the Church, a charism is emerging, the charism of the digital missionary, who feels the strong vocation to accompany those who are not in the Church, those who were baptized and left," Valladares emphasized.

This nun specified that "65% of the global population navigates the digital streets, and existential, human, and physical periphery, real poverty, is also in the digital streets through social networks."

"In Europe, churches are emptying, in Asia religiosity arises, not always Christian, and Latin America is also crying out," Valladares emphasized, insisting that the Church must act in response to this. EFE