{"id":1865350,"date":"2023-03-02T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1865350"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:22:25","slug":"a-couple-more-people-in-heaven-would-be-nice-hallow-ceo-talks-success-of-catholic-app-rise-of-faith-based-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-couple-more-people-in-heaven-would-be-nice-hallow-ceo-talks-success-of-catholic-app-rise-of-faith-based-content\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Couple More People In Heaven Would Be Nice\u2019: Hallow CEO Talks Success Of Catholic App, Rise Of Faith-Based Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-couple-more-people-in-heaven-would-be-nice-hallow-ceo-talks-success-of-catholic-app-rise-of-faith-based-content%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1865350&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/catholicism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic<\/a> Prayer and meditation app <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/god-is-doing-something-pretty-incredible-catholic-app-passes-up-google-tiktok-on-ash-wednesday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hallow<\/a> It&#8217;s only five years old, yet it&#8217;s the most popular Catholic app in the entire world. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/087aff26-45ad-4da9-9e15-6648fcd3e69b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Millions<\/a> Many people in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/prayer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prayer<\/a>Prayers were said in scripture, meditation, and a staggering 175,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alex Jones, Hallow CEO, co-founder, and Hallow CEO, these numbers are astounding. This is an incredible testament to God, Jones explained. When it comes to a &#8220;vision&#8221; The app or how Jones and his company measure Hallow&#8217;s success, Jones, 29, answered directly. &#8220;A couple more people in Heaven would be nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe a couple more people who are in that really dark spot, who might be lost, who might feel like they&#8217;re all alone \u2014 maybe a couple of those people might experience the warmth of God&#8217;s love,&#8221; Jones stated. &#8220;So it&#8217;s that for us, that&#8217;s really what we&#8217;re focused on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones, his two friends Erich Kerekes (CTO) and Alessandro DiSanto (CCO), founded Hallow in December 2018. Kerekes serves as Hallow&#8217;s Chief Technology Officer (CTO)\u00a0and DiSanto as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507149\" class=\"wp-image-507149 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Group-Portrait-3-1000x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Group-Portrait-3-1000x576-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/02\/Group-Portrait-3-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Group-Portrait-3-768x442-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Group-Portrait-3-1536x885-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Group-Portrait-3-2048x1180-1.jpg 2048w\" style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-507149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Alessandro DiSanto and Alex Jones\/\/Courtesy Hallow<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jones, a native Ohioan raised Catholic, left his faith behind in high school and college. He began to meditate in secular meditation after graduating from college. However, he noticed that he was constantly being drawn toward something spiritual and Christian while meditating. Jones, then an agnostic at the time, recalled trying to find out why it was happening by asking priests and other religious people.\u00a0&#8220;Hey, is there any way that there&#8217;s some sort of intersection here between this meditation thing and this faith thing?&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They all laughed at me and said, \u2018Yeah, we&#8217;ve been doing it for more than 2,000 years. It&#8217;s called prayer,'&#8221; Jones recollects the incident, and gives off a laugh. &#8220;You probably should have heard about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones stated that he was shocked by the revelation. &#8220;started learning all about these really beautiful, really powerful contemplative and meditative techniques within the Church tradition,&#8221; He set him and his friends on the road to creating Hallow. The CEO described it as being guided by God and continually improved upon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jones is also a fan of the name Hallow. &#8220;I randomly opened up a Bible that was laying around to Matthew 6, where He teaches the Lord&#8217;s prayer. And the word \u2018hallow&#8217; is the word that stuck out to me that I meditated on \u2014 \u2018hallowed be thy name,'&#8221; According to the CEO. &#8220;And it just changed my life, brought me to tears, brought me back to my faith. It&#8217;s the most powerful experience in my life. My faith is now the center of who I am, the most important part of who I am; daily mass, confession, all that stuff \u2014 it brought me back to the beauty of all the Church teachings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hallow has been praised by more than 100,000 users with five-star ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Jones became emotional and recalled to The Daily Wire the notes that users had sent to Hallow Team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We get these notes from people who are really lost, people who&#8217;ve been addicted, abused, who are struggling or suicidal, who are in a really negative, really dark space \u2014 young women who have body image issues, older men who have addiction issues;\u00a0they write to us and say, God changed my life through this,&#8221; He elaborated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was about to kill myself and God saved my life through prayer, through this app,&#8221; Jones first recalled one message and then described another. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never been able to look at myself and see myself as beautiful, and I heard God say to me, you are loved.\u00a0I made you this way. You are beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We get these notes every day and it&#8217;s just such a beautiful testimony to the power of God,&#8221; The CEO made the observation. &#8220;And if you just sit and give Him five, 10 minutes of your day, He can change your life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We busy ourselves with all these distractions in life, and we never just sit in silence and try to let God into our hearts. And, for us, that&#8217;s really what it&#8217;s about,&#8221; Jones continued. &#8220;When people think about, you know, what&#8217;s the vision for Hallow?\u00a0I&#8217;m like, I don&#8217;t know \u2014 a\u00a0couple more people in heaven would be nice.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507152\" class=\"wp-image-507152 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lent-2022-Screenshots-941x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"941\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lent-2022-Screenshots-941x576-1.png 941w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/02\/Lent-2022-Screenshots-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lent-2022-Screenshots-768x470-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lent-2022-Screenshots-1536x940-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Lent-2022-Screenshots-2048x1253-1.png 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-507152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Courtesy Hallow<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hallow, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/god-is-doing-something-pretty-incredible-catholic-app-passes-up-google-tiktok-on-ash-wednesday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made history<\/a> On Ash Wednesday, you can land at the number 3 spot in the App Store&#8217;s App Store &#8220;Top Charts,&#8221; This isn&#8217;t the only faith-based content that reaches a large audience. &#8220;The Bible in a Year&#8221; podcast hosted by Father Mike Schmitz \u2014 <em>Hallow has also teamed up with them<\/em> \u2014 has tremendous reach, the show &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/costs-and-confusion-the-chosen-creator-explains-popularity-of-show-and-what-fans-can-expect-for-upcoming-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Chosen<\/a>&#8221; is the most successful crowdfunded TV series or film project, and\u00a0new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/faith\">faith-based<\/a>\u00a0movie &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-chosen-star-jonathan-roumie-hilariously-reacts-to-jesus-revolution-landing-in-top-3-at-box-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesus Revolution<\/a>&#8221; landed in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic prayer and meditation app Hallow is not even five years old yet, but it\u2019s already the top Catholic app in the world, connecting literally millions of people in prayer, scripture, and meditation and hitting an astounding 175 million prayers prayed. 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