World Youth Day News
Pope Francis will be in Lisbon from 2nd-6th August, and will make a special return visit to the Shrine of Fatima on 5 August. Lisbon is hosting the fourth World Youth Day over which Pope Francis will preside,
having done so for the WYDs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2013; Krakow, Poland, in 2016; and Panama City, Panama, in 2019.
The 37th World Youth Day was originally scheduled to take place in the Portuguese capital in 2022, but was postponed due to the health emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
For this year’s WYD’s motto, Pope Francis has chosen “Mary arose and went with haste” (Lk 1:39), the Bible quote opening the account of the Visitation, when Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth following the angel’s announcement to the Blessed Mother that she would be the mother of the Son of God.