News from around the world by national and local youth groups such as CYMFED & YCW. It also contains reports on events, activities and resources for young people, often written by young people.
Climate Crisis - Hope Beyond Scapegoating - Understanding the environmental crisis through the lens of René Girard.
Dr Michael Kirwan SJ from the Loyola Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, will be facilitating this event for young adults (18-35) on Saturday, 7 March from 11am to 5pm, at the Laudato Si' Community, 4 Windmill Drive, Clapham Common, London SW4 9DE. (Vegetarian lunch include...
London Catholic Young Adults will be attending the Maronite Rite Mass at Our Lady of Lebanon Church, 17 Cirencester Street, London W2 5SR, on Sunday, 23rd February 2020 at 12.30pm.
After Mass they will take a short bus ride to Edgware Road for a traditional Lebanese lunch at Maroush, 21 Edgware Road, Tyburnia, London W2 2JE) at 2.30pm. The purpose of this group is to help youn...
Million Minutes - a Catholic social action charity - stands up for young people who don't have a voice in society, and helps them to transform their lives and their world by giving them a voice. We know that young people are the future and we have faith in them that they will work for the common good, in order to help everyone live a life of dignity.
This year we have launched the 2020 Le...
Leeds Trinity University will welcome young Catholics from across the UK as part of an annual religious event.
On Friday 21 February 2020, the University will host the Leeds Retreat for the fourth year running, in partnership with Youth 2000, an international movement which seeks to connect young people of Catholic faith.
The three-day retreat brings together young people aged 16-35...
For the past few years the Columban Missionary Society has run a Schools Journalism Competition for Britain, and one for Ireland. It has encouraged students between the ages of 15 and 18 to use their journalistic writing and mobile skills to look at a topical issue which is relevant to Catholic Social Teaching and resonates with Columban mission.
This year the Columbans have invited stude...
A group of inspirational young people from Farnborough have been raising awareness about poverty and the work international development charity CAFOD is doing to tackle it.
'Young leaders' from Salesian College Farnborough, recently held an event for the whole school - teaching them what they had learned on their recent training with CAFOD on how countries around the world are working to ...
Thousands of young people are currently gathering in the Polish city of Wrocław for the 42nd European Meeting of Young People, sponsored by the Taizé Community, which is taking place from 28 December 2019 through 1 January 2020.
This is the third time Wrocław has hosted the event, and the fifth time that the Meeting has been held in Poland.
The annual European gatherings, accordi...
On Friday, Pope Francis inaugurated the new Vatican headquarters of Scholas Occurrentes, a pontifical organization involved in education in 190 countries around the world.
Representatives from Scholas Occurentes from around the world welcomed the Holy Father to the new premises. The young formators - present either in person or via video-link - came from Japan, Argentina, the United State...
Thousands of young Australian Catholics were challenged to "go out and rebuild" God's Church on the opening day of the 2019 Australian Catholic Youth Festival.
The opening session of the Festival, which drew more than 5500 young people from across Australia, featured a Welcome to Country, high-tempo music, inspirational speakers and moments of prayer.
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SD...
Thousands of young people from across the country are in Perth, Western Australia, as the Archdiocese of Perth hosts the 2019 Australian Catholic Youth Festival.
Around 5,500 attendees are spending the three days from Sunday, December 8 to Tuesday, December 10 reflecting on the Biblical exhortation to "Listen to what the Spirit is saying."
The Australian Catholic Youth Festival (ACY...
Over National Youth Sunday weekend (22 -23 November 2019) nominees from previous 'Celebrating Young People Awards' gathered for a young adult's alumni gathering in Central London, for a weekend of celebration, formation and networking. The event was powered by Million Minutes in partnership with the Columbans UK.
The event brought together young people aged 17-25 years, celebrating their ...
A large crowd of young people gave Pope Francis an exhuberant welcome as he arrived at St Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo today.
During the gathering he heard testimonies from three young people - a young Catholic, a young Buddhist, and a young migrant - who were able to voice their deepest fears and aspirations and ask the Pope some questions.
Miki spoke about the pressure young Japanese...
A series of 26 videos has been launched , based on different chapters of 'Christus vivit'.They will guide viewers to read this document and will help young people discover how the words of the Holy Father resound in the hearts of the 'Under 30' generation.
Just two years ago, Pope Francis set up the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life Youth Office taking over the functions of the Pon...
On the Feast of Christ the King, National Youth Sunday, the Synod Fruits project launches its first fundraiser to help bring Pope Francis's message from Christus Vivit to life in exhibitions offered to Cathedrals around the country.
The team at Synod Fruits hope funds raised will enable them to exhibit portraits of twelve young saints, paired with extracts from Christus Vivit, in Cathedra...
