The next WYD will see Asia’s Catholic Church resume normal activities after the pandemic (and the cancellation of Asian Youth Day in India in 2020). Contacts between the Vatican and South Korea have already begun, ahead of an event that can boost the GDP of the host country. Young South Koreans travelling home from Portugal are full of enthusiasm. With the coming edition, hope is possible for a
Pope Francis made the announcement at the end of the final Mass in Lisbon. For Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick of Seoul, this fulfils a wish he expressed to AsiaNews a few months ago, to a country that has fewer and fewer young people because of a very low fertility rate. The Korean Church has already started this journey, bringing more than a thousand young people to Portugal.