US EditionA half-million young Catholics invade Rome, awaiting Pope Leo XIV at Holy Year youth festival
ROME, ITALY, AUG 2 – Pope Leo XIV urged prayer for peace amid global conflicts during a vigil attended by up to one million young Catholics at the Jubilee of Youth in Rome.
- Pope Leo XIV led the closing vigil and Mass in Rome’s Tor Vergata on Saturday, August 2, 2025, with up to a million young believers expected, marking the event’s climax.
- The Jubilee of Youth event invited Catholics aged 18 to 35, with more than 146 countries represented as thousands flooded Rome this week.
- Pope Leo XIV greeted journalists from Vatican Radio, Vatican News and L’Osservatore Romano at a new station under the colonnade and thanked outlets broadcasting in over 55 languages.
- Hundreds of thousands flooded a vast field on Rome’s outskirts Saturday for Pope Leo XIV’s first youth encounter with a vigil and Mass, organizers said.
- Many young pilgrims voiced a desire to hear the Vatican’s stance on climate change, wars and economic inequalities, amid economic uncertainty and rising climate anxiety among under-30s, the Vatican praised youths from Ukraine and Syria and called them to pray for peace.
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According to the organisers, up to one million people are expected to appear at the Youth Meeting.
Thousands of young Catholics from around the world gathered in Rome this Saturday for a mass prayer vigil with Leo XIV, the culmination of the Jubilee, the "Holy Year" of the Catholic Church. WorldSat, 02/08/2025 – 17:51Cuba in darkness: prolonged blackouts reported in several citiesPower outages not only turn off fans and refrigerators; they also interrupt rest and deteriorate mental health. The pilgrims, between 18 and 35 years old and from 14…
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Pope Leo tells hundreds of thousands of young Catholics to build a better world
Hundreds of thousands of young people filled a vast field on the outskirts of Rome on Saturday to see Pope Leo, in the largest event yet of the new Catholic pontiff's tenure, as part of a special weekend aimed at energizing Catholic youth.
Pope Leo XIV has never spoken to so many people before: nearly one million, especially young believers, gathered on the outskirts of Rome to have an evening of prayer with him.
It is the first major event of mass recorded by Leão XIV. The initiative was marked by the heat and death of two pilgrims, but also by the humanist messages of the Pontifical Summit.
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