OUR COUNTRY’S excitement for the coming visit of Pope Francis is strongly felt when TV5, together with PLDT and SMART, introduced its official Papal visit campaign hashtag, #DearPopeFrancis. Since this interactive online campaign was officially launched just before the holidays –that also launched the Kapatid Network’s one-of-a-kind website, www.DearPopeFrancis.ph – an unprecedented number of netizens from all over the world have spiritedly joined in TV5’s invitation to proclaim their joy and love for the Holy Pope by posting their personal greetings and welcome messages to him via various social media platforms, while including the hashtag, #DearPopeFrancis, in their post.
Aside from these greetings and messages, they also sent their special petitions, intentions and prayers to Pope Francis. To date, over 2 billion (and still growing) impressions of the Kapatid Network’s hashtag have been garnered, in just a span of one month – thereby making #DearPopeFrancis the most used Papal visit-dedicated hashtag in the entire country. Indeed, the unparalleled response and excitement of the Filipino people to this historic event is clearly manifested through the record number of tweets using the #DearPopeFrancis hashtag. And with the country’s preparations for the Pope’s arrival already well underway, TV5 invites even more Filipinos from all walks of life to proudly showcase the world-renowned Filipino hospitality and to keep pouring in their messages of love and well-wishes to our #DearPopeFrancis across all social media platforms.
