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“I can be where the young people are”: As a DJ, village priest in Portugal cues up faith and electronic dance music for global youth

Roman Catholic priest Guilherme Peixoto plays a set, together with the Portuguese Army Symphonic Band, during Army Day celebrations in Viana do Castelo, northern Portugal, on Thursday, 26th October, 2023.

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on Catholic priest and DJ, Fr Guilherme Peixoto…

Pope discusses health, his ditched peace prayer in Fatima and LGBTQ+ Catholics in airborne briefing

Pope Francis meets the journalists during a press conference aboard the airplane directed to Rome, at the end of the 37th World Youth Day in Lisbon, on Sunday, 6th August, 2023.

Aboard the papal plane AP Pope Francis said Sunday his recovery from his latest abdominal surgery is going well and stressed that he ditched speeches during his five-day trip to Portugal and spoke off-the-cuff not because he was tired or feeling unwell, but to better communicate with young people. Francis was asked about his health en route […]

Pope announces World Youth Day to return to Asia in 2027, urges young people “not to be afraid”

Young pilgrims from South Korea celebrate with their national flag and with Pope Francis after he announced that the next World Youth Day, will be in Seoul, South Korea in 2027, at the end of a mass at Parque Tejo in Lisbon, on Sunday, 6th August, 2023.

Lisbon, PortugalAP Pope Francis told young people on Sunday the Catholic Church needs them and urged them to follow their dreams as he wrapped up World Youth Day in Portugal with a massive open-air Mass and an announcement that the next edition would be held in Asia for the first time in three decades. News […]

Updated: Pilgrims brave scorching heat for Pope’s vigil in Lisbon after Francis ditches Fatima peace prayer

Pope Francis arrives surrounded by bodyguards at Our Lady of Fatima shrine in Fatima, central Portugal on Saturday, 5th August, 2023.

Updated: 8:15am, 6th August, 2023 (AEST)Lisbon, Portugal AP An estimated 1.5 million young people filled a field in the Portuguese capital Lisbon on Saturday for Pope Francis’ World Youth Day vigil, braving scorching heat to secure a spot for the evening prayer and to camp out overnight for his final farewell Mass on Sunday morning. […]

In Portugal, thousands reflect with Pope on modern worries, endangered planet

Pope Francis attends the "Stations of the Cross" procession with young people at Parque Eduardo VII during his apostolic journey to Portugal on the occasion of the XXXVII World Youth Day, in Lisbon Portugal, on 4th August 2023

Lisbon, Portugal Reuters Hundreds of thousands of young people reflected on their anxieties, enslavement to the “tyranny” of social media and yearning to save the planet at a huge outdoor rally with Pope Francis on Friday. It took nearly an hour for the open vehicle carrying the 86-year-old pope to drive slowly through the crowd at Lisbon’s Edward VII […]

Portuguese town to restore clergy sex abuse billboard after outcry

Pilgrims walk past a blackened out billboard, in the Portuguese municipality of Oeiras, after the town hall ordered the removal of a sign denouncing clergy sex abuse, during the XXXVII World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, on 2nd August, 2023.

Lisbon, PortugalReuters A Portuguese town said on Thursday it would reinstall a billboard highlighting sexual abuse by clergy after facing heavy criticism for removing it on the day Pope Francis arrived in the country to attend a massive youth event. Francis landed in Lisbon on Wednesday for the week-long World Youth Day, an event devised […]

Pope gets an electrifying World Youth Day welcome and urges fighting for economic justice, climate

Pope Francis arrives as he attends a gathering at the Eduardo VII Park with young people participating into the 37th World Youth Day, in Lisbon, Thursday, on 3rd August, 2023

Lisbon, PortugalReuters Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving young people from around the globe gave Pope Francis a raucous welcome to the World Youth Day festival in Portugal’s capital Thursday, in a sign of youthful support for the 86-year-old pontiff and his calls for inclusivity and economic justice. In a display of enthusiasm not seen since the early years […]

Pope, in Portugal to rally young Catholics, says church needs purification

Pope Francis accompanied by Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (R) at the end of a meeting at Belem Palace in Lisbon, Portugal, on 2nd August 2023.

Lisbon, PortugalReuters Pope Francis on Wednesday said the Catholic Church needs a “humble and ongoing purification” to deal with the “anguished cries” of victims of clerical sexual abuse, who he met privately on the first day of his visit to Portugal. Francis was speaking in Lisbon at the start of a five-day visit to the […]

Pope, arriving in Portugal, promises to “stir things up”

Pope Francis is welcomed by Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa upon his arrival at Figo Maduro airbase in Lisbon, Portugal, on 2nd August 2023.

Updated: 9:30pm (AEST)Lisbon, PortugalReuters Pope Francis promised on Wednesday to continue to “stir things up” in the Catholic Church as he moves on with reforms and changes that could leave a lasting legacy. Francis, starting a five-day trip to Portugal, landed at Lisbon’s military air base for a global gathering of young Catholics known as […]

Pope Francis will be in Portugal for five days. Here’s what he will visit

A group of Vietnamese from the United States travelling to attend International World Youth Day stand in front of the 16th century Jeronimos monastery in Lisbon, Tuesday, on 1st August 2023.

Lisbon, Portugal AP Pope Francis begins a five-day trip to Portugal on Wednesday for World Youth Day, the international Catholic jamboree that is expected to gather around one million people. While in Portugal, Francis will visit the place from where 15th- and 16th-century Portuguese explorers set sail on world-changing voyages to Africa, Asia and South America, a church and […]

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