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Christian Prayer App ‘Hallow’ Banned in Europe
International Christian Concern ^ | 2025

Posted on 02/28/2025 4:57:21 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

...CEO and Co-Founder of the Christian prayer app Hallow, took to X (formerly Twitter)...announcing that the European Union (EU) would no longer allow its citizens access to the app.

Jones explained that “over-regulation” targeting all religious apps would make it impossible for Hallow to be available in the EU. This news comes shortly after China removed Hallow from its app store in July 2024.

In his post, Jones expressed his heartbreak over the news as Hallow was in the works of expanding its content to Polish, French, Italian, and German audiences. Since its launch in December 2018, Hallow has seen more than 18 million downloads across 150 countries, making its worldwide reach and influence significant. While the details of the app’s demise in Europe are sparse, some suspect that the EU’s strict data privacy laws are to blame. EU law classifies data that reveals religious or philosophical beliefs as “sensitive” data and prohibits processing such data without explicit consent, with a few limited exceptions. However, some are preparing to defend the app. ADF International, an international legal organization committed to free speech and religious liberty, replied to Jones on X, encouraging him to “DM them with more details,” stating they “might be able to help.”

As Europe continues to see a decline in religious affiliation, with the Pew Research Center estimating that the continent’s Christian population could shrink by 100 million before 2050, the need for Christian prayer apps and religious content is considered by many to be more important than ever. As Jones shared on X in response to the EU’s actions, “God will not be outdone.”

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TOPICS: Current Events; Ministry/Outreach; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: defundnato; destroytheeu; eu; eurofascism; euronazis; europe; fourthreich; freedom; hallow
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Here in the states: Hollywood celebrities like Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pratt, and Gwen Stefani have been involved in narrating prayers and devotionals for the app.

Alex Jones, CEO - not to be confused with the other Alex Jones of the infamous podcast.

1 posted on 02/28/2025 4:57:21 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

And I’m supposed to be worried about Putin?


2 posted on 02/28/2025 4:58:20 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
I’ll bet you a dollar euro that a similar Muslim app would not be banned.
3 posted on 02/28/2025 5:02:13 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Another worthwhile note about the reach of this app:

“Christian prayer app Hallow reaches thousands of prisoners via new partnership”

Reaching the incarcerated has been ‘a goal of ours for years,’ Hallow’s CTO Erich Kerekes told Fox News Digital

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/christian-prayer-app-hallow-reaches-thousands-prisoners-new-partnership-hear-god-word


4 posted on 02/28/2025 5:04:11 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Leaning Right

I HATE that it is becoming increasingly clearer than unless some european countries make HUGE u turns...the alliance we have had with them for so long will not last.

OR I could be completely wrong :)


5 posted on 02/28/2025 5:06:34 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: dp0622

Europe is not worth defending anymore.


6 posted on 02/28/2025 5:08:16 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Our UK and EU “allies” look pretty totalitarian to me.


7 posted on 02/28/2025 5:09:15 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: dfwgator

I’m looking further down the road and am horrified that some of those countries may be our enemies one day.

Especially since the only people really reproducing in some of those countries are muslims.


8 posted on 02/28/2025 5:09:36 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Good for them: Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pratt, and Gwen Stefani!

What is happening in the once liberal, free speech, transparent West?

I remember the 80s, and it seemed like every movie, every concert, government official and politician would talk about these ideas.

Today it’s us trying to stick a cork into freedom of speech and you can forget any semblance of government transparency.

You essentially have a “soft tyranny” where bureaucracies gets to make major decisions which impact commerce and even your basic rights, and “the people* let them get away with it.

The MSM which once prided itself as being the “watchdog of democracy” plays along as if they are a government PR arm, at least when a Democrat is in office.

If you think I’m over exaggerating, need I remind you of covid and what was done?


9 posted on 02/28/2025 5:10:58 PM PST by Red6
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To: dp0622

> OR I could be completely wrong :) <

Well, not in this case. 🙂

I suppose a Titanic analogy might be appreciate here. Not only is Western Europe heading straight for an iceberg, their leaders are down below poking holes in the hull.

Why are they exhibiting openly fascist behavior? Why are they going out of their way to kiss Muslim butt? It almost defies explanation.


10 posted on 02/28/2025 5:15:30 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

So don’t make in an app. Make it a link people can download from or stream from.


11 posted on 02/28/2025 5:15:33 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Leaning Right
I’ll bet you a dollar euro that a similar Muslim or Jewish app would not be banned.
12 posted on 02/28/2025 5:16:00 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

What was it that the Vice President was saying not long ago about shared values?

I remember a TV ad sixty-some years ago from Radio Free Europe. It was about “propaganda...communist propaganda.” The camera panned back as the countries of the Eastern Bloc were named, finally showing a young boy with his head wrapped in chains.

Maybe RFE should start broadcasting to the EU.


13 posted on 02/28/2025 5:16:21 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Better ban The Bible, I guess.

Someone might read it (if they can due to our poor schools), and they might pray!


14 posted on 02/28/2025 5:17:44 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Angelino97
I’ll bet you a dollar euro that a similar Muslim or Jewish app would not be banned.

There’s not that many Jews in Europe. They’ve been driven out by the Musloids
15 posted on 02/28/2025 5:18:36 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: dfwgator

It’s a shame and a pity. Europe throw away their rich cultural history in favor of the unholy ideology of Karl Marx.


16 posted on 02/28/2025 5:19:16 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Leaning Right

And yet there MUST be a reason or reasons.

Total fear?

Hope that they will be spared when muslims finally take over because of their actions now?

No, those are such far fetched ideas that it can’t be.

I would think someone had some terrible dirt on them to get them to do their bidding but no muslim groups are sophisticated to have that kind of intelligence ring.

Sometimes I guess maybe there are no answers to insanity.


17 posted on 02/28/2025 5:20:04 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: dfwgator

“Europe is not worth defending anymore.”
Godless countries lose wars, so I agree.
Their so-called leaders are empty and it’s not worth losing American lives over their wars anymore.


18 posted on 02/28/2025 5:24:46 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: dfwgator

Exactly


19 posted on 02/28/2025 5:25:14 PM PST by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet )
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To: FreedomPoster

Sadly, history is repeating itself.


20 posted on 02/28/2025 5:26:28 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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