Posts Tagged ‘Brazil’

Smartdevice App and ‘Week of Missions’ precedes WYD 2013 in Rio

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

As preparations get under way for World Youth Day, organisers in Rio have launched a new smartdevice App, and announced that a “week of missions” will precede WYD. At the request of Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, and to help young people prepare to participate in World Youth Day, a “week of Read more

World’s largest Marian procession taking place in Brazil

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

On the evening of Oct. 4, two million people began converging on the city of Belém in the northeastern state of Pará, Brazil, for the largest Marian festival in the world.

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