«Today Rome was at the center of the earth ... steps because «the Jubilee goes on and then we work for the World Youth Day to be held this summer, when we expect a great influx of pilgrims.» ...

Their pilgrimages will include stops in Rome and Assisi. World Youth Day will hold special significance for this group, since their state’s population is only 5% Catholic, Smith predicts ...

He appealed especially to young people to “become craftsmen of a new humanity” and said that at Rome's World Youth Day celebrations in August he was “able to glimpse a more peaceful and ...

His appeal came at the end of World Youth Day, a weeklong event ... but he encountered huge crowds day after day without incident and arrived back in Rome on Sunday evening. Many of the faithful ...

Aware that some Catholics may not be able afford to travel to Brazil, where World Youth Day is being held from July 23-28, and perhaps also in an effort to modernize himself, Pope Francis is ...

In Portugal for World Youth Day, one of Catholicism's largest gatherings ... Since its first edition in Rome in 1986, by Saint John Paul II, WYD has been bringing together millions of young ...

Lisbon, Portugal — Pope Francis is in Portugal this week for what's been called the "Catholic Woodstock" — the church's "World Youth Day" festival. Hundreds of thousands of young people are ...

Young South Korean Catholics planted hundreds of trees in a park as part of a preparatory campaign leading up to the next World Youth Day (WYD) to be held in the national capital Seoul. Approximately ...