Christians launch 'sin-free' Facebook where sexy selfies and images of drunken debauchery are forbidden

Are you tired of the constant stream of flesh, booze and selfie obsession which characterises the era of digital communications?

Then we have the perfect social network for you - a Christian version of Facebook called FaceGloria which forbids sex pics and bad language.

The website has just launched in Brazil and is already winning popularity among its 42 million evangelical Christians.

So far, more than 100,000 have used the social network and seen that it is good.

"On Facebook you see a lot of violence and pornography," founder Atilla Barros told AFP

"That's why we thought of creating a network where we could talk about God, love and to spread His word.

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"We want to be morally and technically better than Facebook."

FaceGloria clearly draws influence from the colour scheme of Facebook, but get past the log-in page and the content is significantly less blue.

Sexy photographs and depictions of violence are banned entirely, while there is a list of 600 naughty words which are forbidden.

Controversially, the site bans anything which alludes to gay relationships - which is quite the opposite of Facebook’s famously enlightened, liberal approach to sexuality.

There's no word on whether Christians will be able to chastely poke their chums, although they are no longer able to 'like' pages.

Instead, whenever a user wants to show approval they are invited to press the 'Amen' button, which gives their praise a bit of heft.

Although FaceGloria is only available in Portuguese, there are plans to roll it out across across the world.

It is headquartered in Ferraz de Vasconcelos near Sao Paulo, where a team of 20 work to keep irreligious content off the network.

Acir dos Santos, the mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, is expecting the evangelical website to be as successful on Earth as it is in heaven.

"Our network is global," he proclaimed.

"We have bought the FaceGlory domain in English and in all possible languages.

"We want to take on Facebook and Twitter here and everywhere."