Sunday, July 09, 2023

313,000 have registered for World Youth Day

World Youth Day Malta

313,000 people from 151 countries have completed their registrations for World Youth Day, which takes in Lisbon from August 1-6.

The highest number of registrants come from Spain (58,531), Italy (53,803), France (41,055), Portugal (32,771) and the United States (14,435).

World Youth Day in Lisbon was originally scheduled to take place in 2022, but was postponed in response to the Covid pandemic.  

Over 700,000 people attended the closing Mass of the 2019 World Youth Day in Panama.