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The Telegraph [UK] 28 July 2013
Picture: AP Photo/Felipe Dana
The vigil drew a reported 3 million flag-waving, rosary-toting faithful, higher than the 1 million at the last World Youth Day vigil in Madrid in 2011, and far more than the 650,000 at Toronto’s 2002 vigil.
July 28th, 2013 | Tags: Catholics, Copacabana beach, Pope Francis I, Rio de Janeiro, World Youth Day | Category: Brazil, religion | Comments are closed
Assails Latin American drug cartels, legalization USA Today 7/24/2013 RIO DE JANEIRO – Pope Francis assailed narcotics trafficking and criticized calls to legalize drugs in Latin America in remarks Wednesday while inaugurating a drug rehabilitation clinic. Taking on the powerful drug lords whose violence costs the lives of tens of thousands in Latin America, Francis […] July 24th, 2013 | Tags: Aparecida, Pope Francis I, World Youth Day | Category: Brazil, corruption, Crime, Latin America, religion, Video | Comments are closed
Associated Press via FoxNews.com 8/20/2011 MADRID — An estimated million young pilgrims braved searing temperatures Saturday to take part in a prayer vigil with Pope Benedict XVI, massing at a dusty airport field as the Catholic Church’s youth festival neared its climax. Firefighters atop fire trucks sprayed the crowds with water from hoses, and pilgrims […] August 20th, 2011 | Tags: Madrid, Pope Benedict XVI, Spain, St. John of Avila, World Youth Day | Category: Europe, religion | Comments are closed
The media focus on the anti-pope protests, but ignore World Youth Day, perhaps because its attendees aren’t cool Andrew Brown The Guardian 18 August 2011 If I were a Catholic, I would be feeling rather pissed off with the BBC. The news bulletin in this morning’s Today programme carried an report of the Pope’s […] August 18th, 2011 | Tags: fashion, Madrid, Pope Benedict XVI, Spain, World Youth Day | Category: Media, Progressives, religion | Comments are closed
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