Youth
WYD
200 days to WYD in Lisbon and the LOC visiting the Dicastery
In the week marking 200 days until World Youth Day Lisbon 2023, a delegation of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) met with the Dicastery of Laity, Family and Life, and with the Secretariat of State ...
WYD
An article by Fr. Chagas on the celebration of the WYD in the local churches
It was November 19, 2020, Solemnity of Christ the King, when the Holy Father announced that from 2021 the diocesan celebration of the WYD would no longer be celebrated on Palm Sunday, rather on ...
WYD
November 20, 2022, the Solemnity of Christ the King, XXXVII World Youth Day in the Particular Churches will be celebrated. The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life invites young people to experience it in tune with the World Day of the Poor
Since last year, the World Youth Day in the Particular Churches has been celebrated on the Solemnity of Christ the King, which coincides with the Sunday following the World Day of the Poor. In ...
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With a "click" on a tablet, the Holy Father is the first participant registered for the next World Youth Day, which will take place in Lisbon in August next year
At the end of today's Angelus, flanked by youngs from Portugal who joined him at the window of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis made his online registration for WYD 2023. Dear young people, I ...
WYD
Two days of activities to pinpoint where the preparation stand and promote the active participation of all young people, as we wait for registration to open up
The International Preparatory Meeting for World Youth Day Lisbon 2023 concluded today in Fátima. From October 17-19, the event gathered all the teams of the Local Organizing Committee (COL) of ...
WYD
Card. Farrell to the youth ministry delegates from around the world gathered in Fátima/Lisbon to prepare for WYD 2023
About 300 delegates from more than 100 countries, who belong to Episcopal Conferences, Movements, and Associations, gathered for the first time face-to-face since WYD Panama, due to the ...
John Paul II Foundation for the Youth
The new logo and site were both presented to strengthen service towards the international youth ministry
Thirty years after its establishment in our Dicastery, the John Paul II Foundation for Youth celebrated its anniversary, during a meeting in the Vatican, by presenting its activities and new ...
WYD
Message for the WYD 2022-2023 that will take place in November and in August
“Mary arose and went with haste” (Lk 1:39): this is the theme of the Holy Father's Message to young people on the occasion of the XXXVII World Youth Day, which will be celebrated in the ...
World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
Pope's words in Canada to commemorate the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
During his trip to Canada, Pope Francis devoted some of his reflections to grandparents and the elderly. This attention is driven by the fact that this week is the celebration of the Second ...
Youth
Almost three years after its establishment, the entity created after the Synod on Youth is preparing for its next meeting in Portugal
In November 2019, the International Youth Advisory Body was established. It was created to carry out a specific request of the Final Document of the 2018 Synod, which called for the creation of ...