Ethiopia

Welcome to Ethiopia! As your first stop on the World Youth Day Global Pilgrimage this marks the beginning of a journey that will take you all around the world, ending in Sydney 2008! Your traveling companions are Catholic youth and young adults from all across the country who are praying and preparing with you. Each month you will be able to travel to your next stop on the pilgrimage learning about 12 different peoples and cultures in our one Catholic Church.

World Youth Day Reflections

Each week we will read a reflection given by either Pope John Paul II or Pope Benedict XVI during or about the world youth day ceremonies. The theme for each reflection is tied to the unique experience of the people living in each of the countries on our virtual pilgrimage.

Today you have come together to declare that in the new century you will not let yourselves be made into tools of violence and destruction; you will defend peace, paying the price in your person if need be. You will not resign yourselves to a world where other human beings die of hunger, remain illiterate and have no work. You will defend life at every moment of its development; you will strive with all your strength to make this earth ever more livable for all people.

Pope John Paul II, World Youth Day 2000, Prayer Vigil

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