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With Festivities and Papal Prayer, the Vatican Aims to Attract the Young - West Hawaii Today
ROME, ITALY, JUL 29 – The Jubilee of Youth gathered over one million young Catholics worldwide for reconciliation, prayer, and cultural events to inspire faith amid global challenges, organizers said.
- Pope Leo XIV arrived by helicopter Saturday evening at Tor Vergata in Rome for a vigil of prayer and readings, part of a large youth event ending August 3.
- This event, coinciding with the Roman Catholic Jubilee held every 25 years, aims to engage young Catholics amid declining attendance and growing skepticism worldwide.
- The Vatican's communication department organized the event with outreach online as a key evangelization method, supported by hundreds of young digital faith promoters from 70 countries.
- Attendance this year was expected around 500,000, much lower than the 4 million youths at the 1995 Manila World Youth Day, and Pope Leo XIV urged youth to be 'living testimonies of peace'.
- The celebration will close with a Solemn Mass on August 3, presided over by Pope Leo XIV, highlighting ongoing efforts to renew youth faith in a time of global uncertainty.
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With festivities and papal prayer, the Vatican aims to attract the young - West Hawaii Today
VATICAN CITY — Nuns danced in conga lines. Teenagers bounced up and down to the rhythm of bongo drums. And thousands sang along as singers and bands alternated sets on the huge stage built just last month in a Roman suburb for a youth festival that has become known as the Catholic Woodstock.
With Festivities and Papal Prayer, the Vatican Aims to Attract the Young
Nuns danced in conga lines. Teenagers bounced up and down to the rhythm of bongo drums. And thousands sang along as singers and bands alternated sets on the huge stage built just last month in a Roman suburb for a youth festival that has become known as the Catholic Woodstock. “This is the youth of the pope!” many chanted. The chant turned into a roar when Pope Leo XIV arrived at the site by helicopter on Saturday evening for a vigil of praye…
This Saturday, more than a million young people from 147 countries will gather in a vigil together with Pope Leo XIV on the outskirts of Rome. It is part of the Jubilee of Youth, a space of spiritual reflection that demonstrates faith and hope.
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