To reporters: "Send me good vibrations"

Pope Francis has asked reporters who don't pray to at least send him "good vibrations".

The pope always asks people to pray for him but he put a new twist on the request as he was leaving a meeting with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Sunday.

He turned to reporters and joked in Spanish: "Pray for me, and if some of you can't pray because you are not believers, send me good vibrations".