WYD 2027 preparations move into dioceses, parishes, and youth communities
Delegates return home carrying a mission to prepare young Catholics through local communities ahead of next year’s gathering
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Asian digital missionaries tapped to widen reach of World Youth Day 2027
Asian Catholic creators are being drawn into a wider mission of accompaniment, local storytelling and cross-border Church engagement
Young people turning to AI raise privacy, pastoral concerns for Church
Catholic communicators urged stronger human relationships, digital inclusion and privacy safeguards as artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in ministry
Catholic digital missionaries urged to put witness above followers
Christian communicators were urged to deepen formation, work in communion and preserve human judgment as digital tools grow more powerful
Digital divide, online polarization test Church mission across Asia
Church communicators were challenged to build genuine relationships online while resisting exclusion, echo chambers and the pursuit of virality
2027 World Youth Day gains bipartisan backing as Church pushes broader national participation
Lawmakers from both the ruling People Power Party and the opposition Democratic Party of Korea pledged support for the event
Buddhist monks join Catholics to honor virtue: Thai Church’s moral schools model wins national praise
The awards honored schools that seamlessly embed virtues such as honesty, financial stewardship, and social responsibility into daily routines
Cardinal Tagle urges end to wars, violence at father’s funeral
Tagle said his father also survived because people around him offered support during the war, a lesson he connected to the importance of human relationships
Asian Catholic digital missionaries urged to move beyond ‘influencer’ culture
Catholic communicators were challenged to use digital platforms to connect divided communities and extend the Church’s presence online
Cardinal Tagle urges end to wars, violence at father’s funeral
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle invoked his father’s childhood wounds from World
