{"id":17628,"date":"2023-07-28T16:34:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=17628"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:34:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:34:50","slug":"zambia-youth-leave-for-world-youth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2023\/07\/28\/zambia-youth-leave-for-world-youth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAMBIA: Youth Leave for World Youth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Mwenya Mukuka<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 200 Catholic youths have left for Portugal, Lisbon to participate in the World Youth Days in the company in the company of priests and religious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops Secretary General has encouraged the pilgrims to take the World Youths Day attendance as a privileged moment to encounter with the Lord.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Father Mukosa said this during the sendoff mass he presided in the presence Fr. Cornelius Chibamba, the National Pastoral Coordinator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ZCCB Secretary General reminded the young people that they were ambassadors of the church in Zambia and a representation of all the young people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe expect you to come back and rejuvenate the church through your experiences and inspirations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, ZCCB National Youth Coordinator Fr. Christopher Kunda thanked Frs Mukosa and Chibamba for the support rendered during the process of preparation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fr. Kunda assured that the journey to the World Youth Day will not end as a touristic expedition but rather a deep spiritual experience for the benefit of all the youths in Zambia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crowd-pulling World Youth Day that comes every three years\u00a0being held in Lisbon Portugal.<br \/>\nThis 36-year-old Catholic pilgrimage, which is the world&#8217;s largest gathering of young Catholics was scheduled for August 2022 but Pope Francis postponed it last April to August 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ends\/\/\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mwenya Mukuka About 200 Catholic youths have left for Portugal, Lisbon to participate in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news","category-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17632,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17628\/revisions\/17632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}