WelCom October 2024
The first World Youth Day to be hosted in a country where Christians are a minority will seek to instil young people with the courage to share the Gospel while fostering inter-religious dialogue. World Youth Day 2027 is to be hosted in Seoul, South Korea.
Cardinal Kevin J Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life said the challenges young people face today – a loss of purpose, climate change, the digital revolution and economic inequality – ‘will stimulate young people to make their personal contribution so contemporary culture may be permeated and transformed by the Gospel, with its power, light and freshness.’
And in Asia, a continent ‘receptive to the coexistence of cultures, dialogue and complementarity’, the cardinal said young pilgrims will advance ‘on their path of learning to become messengers of peace in the world so torn by conflict and confrontation’.
Source: CNS