The Vatican has said that it is using the Telegram messenger for sending the daily readings of the Gospel verses as part of its 'Keep Lent' campaign, reports engadget.com. 

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'Keep Lent' is an initiative of the Prelature of the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii's youth ministry office. The initiative starts on Ash Wednesday and is based on the social media. It provides a daily Gospel reading and commentary from prominent clergymen and lay catechists.

Pope Francis is the inaugural contributor of the initiative. 

Last year the Vatican had used Whatsapp, but tech experts believe that the Catholic leadership wants to follow its younger generation based on the current social media service they are using. 

Telegram was set up by the two brothers who founded VKontakte, a Russian social networking site inspired by Facebook that counts more than 100 million active users. VKontakte, a Russian social networking site inspired by Facebook that counts more than 100 million active users.

The main appeal of Telegram is that it allows users to send strongly encrypted messages, for free, to any number of a user's phones, tablets or computers, which is useful to people who need to switch devices frequently. It has group messaging features that allow members to share large videos, voice messages or lots of links in one message, without detection by outsiders because this service does not run through the computing cloud.