WYD
WYD Seoul 2027
The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, Seoul and Lisbon work together for the next World Youth Day in 2027
On 27 and 28 May, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life met with the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of Seoul, which will host the next edition of World Youth Day (WYD). The invitation was ...
Youth Ministry
From 23 to 25 May, the International Congress on Youth Ministry
From 23 to 25 May, approximately 300 delegates of Episcopal Conferences from 110 countries will take part in the International Congress on Youth Ministry which was organised by the Dicastery ...
Centro San Lorenzo
De Paula Souza: Let us entrust to the Cross of Youth the sufferings of humanity, with the renewed hope that Christ is alive and wants us alive
On 13 and 14 April, the 'Festival of Hope' was held at the San Lorenzo International Youth Centre (CSL) to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first youth meeting in Saint Peter's Square ...
Christus Vivit
Five years after the publication of Christus Vivit, Pope Francis writes a new message to young people
On 25 March 2019, in the Holy House of Loreto, Pope Francis signed the Post-Synodal Exhortation Christus Vivit, a 'letter' to young people that encapsulated the work of the Synod of Bishops on ...
WYD
From the 25th of February to the 25th of April, a 12-week social campaign to rediscover the relevance of the Pope's letter to young people and keep alive the experience of World Youth Days
This year, the Church celebrates the five-year anniversary of the publication of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Christus Vivit. On the 25th of March 2019 in fact, Pope Francis signed ...
WYD
Chagas: continuation of the Youth Synod, WYD in Central America was a great experience of listening
On 27 January 2019, some 700,000 young people from around the world gathered at Campo San Juan Pablo II in Panama City for the Mass that concluded an intense and profound week of ...
WYD
An invitation to the youth to share words of hope amongst their friends
On the day of the Solemnity of Christ the King, November 26, 2023, the Church celebrates the World Youth Day in the Particular Churches. On this day, various events will be organized in many ...
WYD
Pope Francis marks the beginning of a two-year cycle on the theme of hope that will prepare young people for the Jubilee of 2025
The Holy Father's Message to the youth for the XXXVIII World Youth Day to be celebrated in particular Churches around the world on the Solemnity of Christ the King, November 26, 2023, is ...
WYD
“Rejoicing in hope” and “Those who hope in the Lord will run and not be weary” are the thems chosen by the Holy Father
The Holy Father has chosen the themes of the two World Youth Days that will be celebrated in the particular Churches in 2023 and 2024, on the Solemnity of Christ the King, and that will mark ...
WYD Lisbon 2023
In a video message, the Holy Father calls on young people to be "missionaries, sowers and witnesses" of what they experienced in Lisbon last August
“You still cherish the memory of the Day, don't you? It is a memory that is not to be packed away or left alone in photo albums. It should be a living memory, and you have to keep it alive”. ...