A thousand young Catholics spread the gospel online
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Pope Leo XIV has implored a million young Catholics from around the world to aspire to great things and not settle for less at a special Jubilee celebration in Rome. We have a report on the Catholic social media influencers who spread the gospel online. Also on the programme: Arab nations have condemned a visit to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem by Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir; and Kim Kardashian’s new facial wrap you wear while sleeping generates much online chatter. (Photo: Pope Leo XIV presides over Holy Mass on the occasion of the Jubilee of Youth, at Tor Vergata in Rome, Italy, 03 August 2025. Credit: EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Live from London, this is Andrew Peach with NewsHour. Good to have you with us. When a million Catholics descend on Rome for any special event, the energy in the city is incredible. I was there to cover the beatification of John Paul II for the BBC in 2011. I can still see the faces of the sharp elbowed nuns |
| 0:22.0 | I was thrust alongside in the crowd |
| 0:23.8 | as we moved towards the Vatican at 4 o'clock in the morning. |
| 0:27.5 | Well, today the atmosphere was even more vibrant |
| 0:30.1 | with an open-air mass |
| 0:31.5 | marking the culmination of a youth pilgrimage |
| 0:34.1 | with people from around the world. |
| 0:35.9 | This is in every hour. youth pilgrimage with people from around the world. |
| 0:48.3 | In his address, Pope Leo pledged his support for young people in war zones. We are closer than ever to young people who suffer the most serious evils |
| 0:54.0 | which are caused by other human beings. |
| 0:57.0 | We are with the young people of Gaza. |
| 1:06.0 | We are with the young people of Ukraine. |
| 1:13.6 | With those of every land bloodied by war. |
| 1:21.6 | My young brothers and sisters, you are the sign that a different world is possible, a world of fraternity and friendship, where conflicts are not resolved with weapons but with dialogue. |
| 1:38.7 | This was also the first Vatican gathering of Catholic social media influences, about a thousand people who spread the gospel online, |
| 1:47.3 | sometimes in surprising ways. Sarah Ramesford reports. |
| 1:56.8 | Right now, here in Rome, you can't move for young Catholics from all over the world. |
| 2:02.2 | They pack out the metro in the streets and they are singing about Jesus. |
| 2:09.1 | It is a holy year for the church and this week has been all about young people and how to engage them. |
| 2:18.5 | It's all about social media and Catholic influences. |
| 2:23.7 | A thousand of them gathered here in Rome, and they already have their own anthem. |
| 2:28.7 | They are the people who are spreading the word online, way beyond the walls of any church. |
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