2023-07-08 17:16:00
By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú
July 8, 2023 / 10:16 a.m.
On the night of August 4, World Youth Day will host the First World Meeting of Evangelizers and Digital Missionaries.
After the prayer of Way of the Cross In which Pope Francis will participate, on Friday, August 4, this festival will take place at 8:30 p.m. (local time) in the “Parque Cristonautas” in Plaza Martim Moniz.
The event has been organized by the official Organizing Committee with the collaboration of the Dicastery for Communication, the “Cristonautas” program, the Catholic Association of Propagandists (ACDP) and the “The Church listens to you” program.
This pioneering meeting aims to bring together the “digital missionaries” who carry out a work of evangelization through the digital worldas well as his followers and any young person who wants to participate.
Influencers, who will be able to access an exclusive area, must register in advance by filling out a form in the official website of the meeting.
Some Catholic “influencers” have also been invited to the festival, such as Rorro Echavez, Clara Cuevas or “Sor Selfie”, who has more than seventy thousand followers on the Instagram social network.
In addition, it will have the participation of Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga and Msgr. Lucio Ruiz, head of the Vatican internet service.
will also be present shalom missionarythe Catholic music group popular among young people in Brazil and Pablo Martínez, Argentine catholic catechist, writer, and singer.
Almudena Martínez-Bordiú is a Spanish journalist, correspondent for ACI Prensa in Rome and the Vatican, with four years of experience in religious information.
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