World Meeting of Families, World
Youth Day postponed
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| An image from the most recent World Youth Day 2019, in Panama |
Pope Francis has decided to postpone the upcoming World
Meeting of Families and World Youth Day because of the coronavirus outbreak.
By Vatican News
The Vatican has announced that two major international
ecclesial events will be postponed.
In a statement released Monday afternoon, the Director of
the Holy See Press Office confirmed that Pope Francis, together with the
Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, has decided to postpone the World
Meeting of Families and World Youth Day.
The World Meeting of Families, scheduled to take place
in Rome in June 2021, has been re-scheduled for June, 2022.
Likewise, the next World Youth Day, set to take place in
Lisbon in 2022, will now be held one year later, in August of 2023.
The decision was made, according to the press release, on
account of the current health situation and its consequences for the movement
and gathering of young people and their families.
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