Posts Tagged ‘World Youth Day’
American Samoa Catholic Youth attend World Youth Day 2011 in Spain
Friday, August 26th, 2011Twenty-six pilgrims representing the Catholic Youth of American Samoa Diocese of Samoa Pago Pago are among the more than 2 million youth from around the world, who attended World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid, Spain, held August 16- 21 – a Catholic event focused on youth. The American Samoa Catholic Youth group, led by Director of Youth Rev. Malaki Timu, FK left the territory a week ago Thursday (Aug. 11) and arrived in Madrid Sunday morning (Aug. 14).
Read the article...Chilled out Kiwi has lunch with Pope
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Martin Leung-Wai, a 25-year-old New Zealander who was one of 12 young people to share lunch with Pope Benedict said it “made my World Youth Day experience the experience of a lifetime”. Leung-Wai, a 25-year-old from Auckland, said, “Having lunch with the Holy Father is something you tell your family and friends and future generations about”. Read more
Pope and pilgrims drenched but WYD atmosphere not dampened
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Pope Benedict braved thunder, lightning, strong winds and torrential rain to preside at the 2011 WYD vigil prayer service. “Be proud of the gift of faith which you have received, as it will illumine your life at every moment,” the Pope said to 1.5 million young people at Cuatro Vientos air base on the outskirts Read more
New Zealand’s World Youth Day: Madrid and elsewhere
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Two year 13 students from Auckland met Pope Benedict XVI at the World Youth Day Papal Welcome Ceremony in Madrid. The ceremony began at 5.30am New Zealand time (18 August at 7.30pm Madrid time). Dominic Light and Vincent Phua, both 18, were chosen to join 48 other young people from around the world to meet with Read more
WYD money well spent?
Friday, August 19th, 2011
It was Judas who said “the money would be better spent on the poor.” The same thing is being said on some quarters about the money spent on staging World Youth Day at a time when there are famines, wars, natural disasters and debit crises. Is WYD money well spent? “Today, as in every age, there is Read more
Pope in Spain – uplift or distraction?
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Will the presence of the Pope in Spain be a moment of spiritual uplift or an unhelpful distraction? That latter possibility was captured by a recent banner unfurled by indignados protestors in advance of the trip: “Fewer crucifixes and more jobs!” A mounting debt crisis has raised fears that Italy and Spain, the third- and Read more
WYD Madrid begins: “Days you will never forget”
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Hundreds of thousands of young people from around the world gathered in Madrid, Spain for the opening Mass of World Youth Day 2011. “The day that we’ve been waiting for has arrived, Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, said as he welcomed the crowd. “These will be days you will never Read more
- Pope arrives in Spain in time of economic turmoil
- Student plotted attack on anti-Pope crowd
- Japan with tiny Catholic population represented at WYD
- Average age of those at WYD is 22
- Pope's call to faithful: Attend WYD through your prayers
- World Youth Day Madrid 2011 kicks off in Spain.
- A Panoramic photo - scroll right
- Rio de Janeiro to host WYD 2013
Strike averted in time for WYD2011
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Strikes across Spain coinciding with the Pope’s visit to World Youth Day have been averted after a baggage handling company agreed to reinstate four workers who had been made redundant. It was reported yesterday that unions representing Spanish airport ground crew had called strikes to coincide with Pope Benedict XVI’s four-day visit to the Spanish Read more
Spanish priests join opposition to cost of Pope’s visit for WYD2011
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Priests from Madrid’s poorest parishes are criticising the cost of Pope Benedict’s visit to Madrid for World Youth Day, (WYD2011.) “The Priests’ Forum” estimates the cost of the visit, not counting security, to be around NZ$105 million, and says the visit cannot be justified at a time of massive public cuts and 20% unemployment in Spain. Read more
- Anti-Pope demonstration banned from centre of Madrid
- Cost of Pope's visit comes under fire in crisis-hit Spain
- A star shines in Madrid
- WYD and Pope Benedict's visio of a "new evangelisation"
- WYD2011: 'Important energy in the Church'
- Nearly 4000 youth with disabilities to participate in World Youth Day event