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Youth & Young Adults

News from around the world by national and local youth groups such as CYMFED & YCW. It also contains reports on events, activities and resources for young people, often written by young people. See our Young People's Projects & Services Links page for relevant links.


Faith Matters meets Boney M lead singer

Christmas cover of Faith Matters

Liz Mitchell from Boney M (Remember their classic hits: 'By the Rivers of Babylon' and 'Mary's Boy Child?' to name but two?) features in an exclusive interview, in the Christmas edition of Faith Matters, written by student reporters from St John Bosco College in Battersea, south London. Entitled: 'Music Chose Me', Liz tells reporters Joshua Obeng and Jay Nil-Addy about how she has been inspired an... Read More


Religious Life Discernment Weekend in Rome

To celebrate the Jubilee Year 2025, the Religious of the Assumption are inviting single women (18-30s) open to discerning a call to consecrated life to take part in a discernment weekend in Rome. This will take place from Friday 31st January to Sunday 2nd February, enabling participants to celebrate February 2nd, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated... Read More


Million Minutes launches Adventurous Accompaniment Programme

Million Minutes are excited to announce the launch of Adventurous Accompaniment, an opportunity to explore the art of accompaniment through research-based, high-quality resources and bespoke facilitation. Work with us to explore how this may deepen understanding of Catholic communities and enhance pastoral areas of work. We need only to accompany and encourage them, trusting a little more in the g... Read More


Leeds Trinity celebrates 25 years of Chaplaincy event promoting community and belonging

Tea on the Landing

Leeds Trinity University is celebrating its 25th anniversary of Tea on the Landing, a weekly gathering, that takes place at its Main Campus in Horsforth, reminding the University community made up of colleagues, students and visitors, of the importance of in-person social interactions. Originally launched in 1999 by Angela Filarowski, a former Chaplaincy Assistant at Leeds Trinity, to engage mor... Read More


Pope greets WYD delegates from Portugal and South Korea

Pope Francis during the Angelus accompanied by two Korean young people

Pope Francis greeted delegations of young people from Portugal and South Korea in Rome on Sunday for the 39th World Youth Day on the Solemnity of Christ the King. The WYD symbols: the Cross and the icon of Mary Salus Populi Romani, were passed from the Portuguese to the Koreans who will host the next world youth gathering in Seoul in 2027. The Pope encouraged the Korean young people, reminding t... Read More


Monastic Experience Weekend at Minster Abbey

A Monastic Experience Retreat for single young women, aged 18 - 40, will take place at Minster Abbey, Ramsgate, Kent, on the from Friday 22 - Sunday 24 November, the Feast of Christi the King. For more information please email: minstervocations@gmail.com or visit Minster Abbey website: https://www.minsterabbeynuns.org FURTHER LINKS Find more retreat centres and pilgrimage house here: https://www... Read More


De La Salle Superior General celebrates 50 years of St Cassian's Centre

"You are part of a new, synodal family in this place. St John Baptist de La Salle tried to create a community like this in his time and was unable to… you are starting this here." These were words from Brother Armin Luistro, General Superior of the Lasallians, addressed to over 100 young people and their teachers from Lasallian schools across Great Britain, Ireland and Malta. They gathered last ... Read More


St Cassian's Centre begins 50th anniversary celebrations

St Cassian's, Kintbury,

St Cassian's, Kintbury, the Lasallian youth centre in Berkshire, will begin celebrating 50 years of transformative youth ministry with a special retreat starting next Thursday, 17th October. Young people from all the Lasallian school in Britain as well as those in Ireland and Malta have been invited to the event. They are joined by Brother Armin Luistro FSC, the Superior General of the De La Sall... Read More


Young Adults go on Pilgrimage to Paris with SVP 1833

Young pilgrims in the St Vincent de Paul chapel, Paris

This September, a group of young adults journeyed to Paris with SVP 1833 in order to discover more about Vincentian spirituality and history. These were five days of discovery for those involved, making pilgrimage to key sites in the origins of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society. The young adults had come from a variety of backgrounds and stages of experience, be that finishing their first year of ... Read More


Diocese to welcome relics of Blessed Carlo Acutis

The Diocese of Shrewsbury is to welcome the relics of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the Italian teenager who is likely to become "the first millennial saint". A relic of his heart will be brought to Wythenshawe, Manchester, for four days of public prayer, veneration and devotion. Blessed Carlo, who was born in London to Italian parents, died from leukaemia in 2006 at the age of 15 after dedicating himself... Read More


On International Youth Day, young people send clear message: we are strong peace-builders

Speakers and hosts from the Ecumenical International Youth day 2024 online event. Photo: Valter Muniz/WCC

On Monday, 12 August, young people across the world participated in the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical International Youth Day, which convened under the theme 'Journey of Justice, Peace, and Unity: A Call to End Violence.' The online event highlighted the experiences and resilience of young people and children living amidst conflict, emphasizing the urgent need for peace and support. I... Read More


East Anglia: Youth Service seeks one more person for Ignite team

Ignite Team

East Anglia's Diocesan Youth Service of is looking for one more person (age 18 -30) to join the Ignite Team for this coming academic year and there is still time to apply. If you have just left school or university, in between jobs, wanting to take time to discern what the Lord is calling you to, or just want to do something different, why not consider applying? This is a full-time position with t... Read More


Relic of 'God's Influencer' coming to Walsingham

A Relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis' will visit the Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham as part of the 38th New Dawn Catholic Pilgrimage next week. On Tuesday 6th and Thursday 8th August, children aged 5-11 and Youth aged 12-17 who are part of New Dawn's Children's and Youth ministry streams, will have a personal opportunity to see and venerate the Relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis. The v... Read More


Reflection from Greece: Church in the eyes of our young people

WYD Lisbon. Image ICN/JS

Mill Hill Missionaries have published this thought-provoking reflection from Greece on the urgent challenge of passing on faith to the young in today's weird, fast-moving world. "It must be said, that the Church does not easily accept adolescents. It often has trouble understanding and communicating with them. The position it imagines for them is a bit strange, because it tells them that they, the... Read More

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