Youth on the move with Courage and Hope

On 19 June, Giovanni Caccamo and the World Youth Orchestra in concert in favour of the John Paul II Foundation for Youth.

 

The evening concert organised by the John Paul II Foundation for Youth, an instrumental entity of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, which has been supporting the organisation of World Youth Days and the activities of the Dicastery’s Youth Office for more than thirty years, will be held on 19 June, at Villa Lusa, headquarters of the Portuguese Embassy to the Holy See.

The occasion arose from the Board’s wish to follow up on the meeting held in October 2022 in the Vatican [link], when the preparation work towards the WYD in Lisbon was presented to supporters and institutions.

In this second meeting, moderated by the presenter of A Sua Immagine Italian TV program, Lorena Bianchetti, the Foundation proposes to reflect, together with supporters and invited friends, on what can be concretely – and synergistically – done to promote Catholic youth pastoral work in the world and to support initiatives that aim to involve young people in concrete projects, in their respective fields of study and work, with a view to the next WYD in Seoul 2027.

“To pay tribute to our commitment to supporting young people and World Youth Days,” says the Foundation’s President, Avv. Daniele Bruno, “we wanted at the opening of the evening that two young artists from the World Youth Orchestra play a piece of traditional Portuguese music (remembering Lisbon 2023), a piece of Italian opera (in honour of the upcoming Youth Jubilee 2025) and a traditional Korean piece (looking towards WYD Seoul 2027).

The programme of the event – made possible thanks to the kind hospitality of His Excellency H. Ex. Domingos Teixeira de Abreu Fezas Vital, Ambassador of Portugal to the Holy See and of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta – includes the presentation of the magazine published by the Foundation, World Youth Day Magazine, renewed in form and content, and of the Acts of the Conference on the Care of Creation, which took place during WYD 2023, in Lisbon [link].

To conclude the event, there will be a musical performance by Giovanni Caccamo, an internationally recognised Italian singer-songwriter, who will present his project Parola ai giovani, which has been exhibited in various institutional venues, including the Senate of the Italian Republic and also the United Nations Building in New York, in its international declination under the name Manifesto for change – Youth and future. It is a competition of ideas, aimed at young people from all over the world to create a cultural manifesto for change, on themes such as peace, inclusion and sustainable development.

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The World Youth Orchestra has been committed since 2011 to promoting a culture of peace, affirming the belief in universal values such as peace, brotherhood, equal rights and human dignity.

Giovanni Caccamo, Sicilian singer-songwriter, with Manifesto for change – Youth and future is the spokesperson for his generation, aware of the duty of young people to create a new horizon in this historical moment of serious crisis, conflict and disintegration.

 

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