World Youth Day 2005
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The World Youth Day 2005 is a Catholic youth festival that has started on August 16 and will continue until August 21, 2005 in Cologne, Germany. It will be the first World Youth Day and foreign trip of Pope Benedict XVI who is going to join the festival on August 18. This meeting was decided by the previous pope, John Paul II, during the Toronto World Youth Day of 2002. The theme is "We have come to worship Him" (from Matthew 2:2).
About 400,000 young people from 200 countries are attending during the week, 800,000 are being expected for the weekend. They will be joined by about 600 bishops and cardinals, as well as by 4,000 reporters.
This year's event is also special because of the presence of Juventutem, a contingent of young Catholic traditionalists who will have the traditional Roman rite of Mass offered for them by several members of the Church hierarchy.
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