International Taizé meeting online

The international Taizé meeting will take place online from December 27, 2020 to January 1, 2021......

For the first time the European Meeting of Young Adults will be held it is in Taizé at the end of 2020, a year marked by the Covid-19 pandemic. Already in June, it was announced that the scheduled meeting in Turin, in northern Italy, would have to be postponed for a year. The programme will be broadcast entirely online to allow young people from all over the world to take part and will include common prayers, workshops and Bible meditations.

Young people between the ages of 18 and 30 who wish to participate in the online small groups and ask questions of the speakers must register online on the site by December 20: https://www.taize.fr/en_article29342.html

The theme of this 43rd European Meeting will be the title of the text that Brother Alois has written for the occasion: "Hoping in season and out of season - A message for 2021". The introduction to this text and the titles of the five parts are available to the press on the Taizé website: www.taize.fr/en_article29337.html . The message will be made public on December 21.

The full programme is available online on the Taizé website www.taize.fr/en_article29837.html and includes a workshop led by global health expert Dr Christoph Benn on the subject "Moving from competition to cooperation: the challenges to public health in the time of COVID-19."

All those who wish will be able to follow the highlights of the programme, in particular the common prayers and the workshops.
Local initiatives will take place in Europe from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine to Portugal and Spain, from Finland to Italy and further afield in Mexico, El Salvador and the Philippines.

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