Archdiocese hosts local World Youth Day event

Consul General of Poland in Vancouver urges young people to make pilgrimage to Krakow in 2016

Young adults display a wooden cross and laminated Stations of the Cross as they pray and sing in Cathedral Square March 28. It was part of an event in celebration of World Youth Day, which Pope John Paul II first instituted in 1985. Agnieszka Krawczynski / The B.C. Catholic.

Young adults took their faith outdoors as they celebrated World Youth Day in Cathedral Square in downtown Vancouver. For full story see The B.C. Catholic website.


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