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Pope Expresses Hope to Meet Young Catholics in Seoul at World Youth Day 2027
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, AUG 4 – The event will gather up to 800,000 participants, marking South Korea as the second Asian host and emphasizing the theme 'Take courage, I have overcome the world.'
- On Aug. 3, 2027, Pope Leo XIV announced that World Youth Day will be held in Seoul, South Korea, from Aug 3 to Aug 8, during the Jubilee of Youth’s closing Mass at Tor Vergata in Rome.
- Following the jubilee, Pope Leo XIV said the 'pilgrimage of hope' will continue and renews Pope Francis’s 2023 WYD Lisbon invitation, leading to Asia.
- Estimates show 700,000 to 1 million participants, including 200,000 to 300,000 international pilgrims, attending World Youth Day Seoul 2027, with the concluding mass expected to draw up to 800,000.
- Soon, the local organising committee, led by Archbishop Peter Soon-taik Chung, is planning venues, accommodations, security protocols and outreach strategies in South Korea for WYD 2027.
- South Korea’s Catholic community, numbering almost 6 million, will host the 2027 World Youth Day, the first in South Korea and second in Asia after Manila in 1995.
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ROME— Pope Leo XIV on Sunday formally announced that the next World Youth Day in Seoul, South Korea, will be held from August 3 to 8, 2027. The announcement came at the closing Mass of the Jubilee of Youth in Rome, which drew about a million young pilgrims to the Eternal City for a weeklong […] The post Pope announces dates for 2027 WYD in South Korea appeared first on Interaksyon.
Pope Leo XIV: 2027 World Youth Day in Seoul to take place Aug 3-8
SEOUL — Pope Leo XIV announced on Sunday that the next World Youth Day will be held in Seoul, Korea, from Aug. 3 to 8, 2027. The announcement came just before he led the Angelus — a brief prayer traditionally said at noon in the Catholic Church — at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome. “With this jubilee concluded, the ‘pilgrimage of hope’ for young people continues and will take us to Asia,” he said in front of 1 million Jubilee of Youth p…
Next World Youth Day to be historic first in non-Christian country, bishop says
Young Korean pilgrims gather for Mass during the Jubilee of Youth in the Basilica of San Crisogono in Trastevere offered by Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung on July 31, 2025. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Vatican City, Aug 4, 2025 / 12:05 pm (CNA).... [...]
Next World Youth Day to be historic first in non-Christian country
Young Korean pilgrims gather for Mass during the Jubilee of Youth in the Basilica of San Crisogono in Trastevere offered by Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung on July 31, 2025. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Vatican City, Aug 4, 2025 / 12:05 pm (CNA). The next World Youth Day, scheduled for Aug. 3–8, 2027, will mark a historic milestone for the Catholic Church: the first time the global gathering of Catholic youth will be held in a non-Christian countr…
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