{"id":3717,"date":"2005-08-17T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/global-pilgrims.html"},"modified":"2005-08-17T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T08:34:00","slug":"global-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/global-pilgrims.html","title":{"rendered":"Global pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Various stories on WYD pilgrims from around the world:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianews.it\/view.php?l=en&amp;art=3920\">From Thailand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianews.it\/view.php?l=en&amp;art=3916\">India<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It should be a pilgrimage where I will have the chance to know myself better, to have an experience and thus to improve my contribution to the diocese where I come from.\u201d Catherine Geeta is 25 years and she comes from the diocese of Jalandhar in the north of the country. For her, the WYD is a great opportunity to meet people and to understand different cultures of the planet. Jennifer Fernandes, 24 years, is from Bombay. She says she is \u201ccurious and wanting to learn about the ways in which youths from around the whole world live their faith\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>There will be many Indian youths in Cologne who are not travelling with official groups. The Jesus Youth, a movement born in the province of Kerala has sent 150 youths to Germany. CC Manoj, organization spokesperson, said the youths have defined the trip as a \u201cpilgrimage of faith\u201d because on 21 August, after the WYD draws to a close, they will stop by in Rome, Lourdes and other places of pilgrimage in Europe. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/story.jsp?story=657237\">Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Father Lee said the Galway delegation would be on the Papal boat because of &quot;the close links that have been developed between the dioceses of Galway and Cologne over the years&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Secretary of World Youth Day, Fr Ulrich Hennes, was &quot;a frequent visitor to Galway.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Fr Lee described the opportunity to accompany Pope Benedict on the boat as &quot;a great honour -we are absolutely thrilled.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various stories on WYD pilgrims from around the world: From Thailand India It should be a pilgrimage where I will have the chance to know myself better, to have an experience and thus to improve my contribution to the diocese where I come from.\u201d Catherine Geeta is 25 years and she comes from the diocese&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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