The first such event took place outside of Rome, four years later, in Santiago de Compostela. On this “Inside the Vatican” deep dive about the World Youth Day experience, I speak with Aura ...

The event is World Youth Day - even though it's more than a day, really, since it goes until Sunday. To talk about this moment in the life of the Catholic Church and its 86-year-old leader ...

As part of the “Youth Festival” program of World Youth Day, the KAICIID Dialogue Centre, an intergovernmental organization based in Lisbon, organized several events aimed at interreligious ...

Mega-events like this, where the church’s faithful ... amid the euphoria of World Youth Day, to seek and pursue that desire they have to meet God. They, like Moses in today's first reading ...

Since then, World Youth Skills Day events have provided a unique opportunity for dialogue between young people, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions, firms ...

he announced that the next edition of World Youth Day would be held in Asia for the first time in 30 years, with Seoul, South Korea, chosen as the host city for the 2027 event. Pope Francis meets ...

Celebrants gathered at the Myeongdong Cathedral in Seoul, South Korea, as part of the launch event for World Youth Day 2027. (photo: Korean Culture and Information Service / Wikimedia Commons ...

Describing World Youth Day as "a parable of synodality," a Vatican official told reporters in the Portuguese capital Aug. 2 that young people's desires to be "protagonists" in their own faith ...

World Youth Day, which takes place next week in Lisbon in the presence of Pope Francis and an expected one million pilgrims, is the largest Catholic event in the world. Initiated in 1986 by Pope ...

“Do not be afraid!” he said. Francis gave a special shout-out to John Paul, recalling that he launched the World Youth Day events in the 1980s to inspire the next generation of Catholic ...

During World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, last week, pilgrims had the opportunity to participate in an initiative called “Spiritual Routes,” which included guided visits to a Muslim mosque ...

VATICAN CITY: World Youth Day, which takes place next week in Lisbon in the presence of Pope Francis and an expected one million pilgrims, is the largest Catholic event in the world. Initiated in 1986 ...