Organizing committee for WYD Rio 2013 greets Pope after Rome meeting

January 23, 2013

(Romereports.com) This week, organizers gave new life to the preparation for World Youth Day in Brazil. The organizing committee for WYD in Rio de Janeiro spent several days in Rome working out the details of the papal visit.   

The group, composed of civil and ecclesiastical leaders from Brazil, briefly greeted Benedict XVI after Wednesday's general audience. Rio's Archbishop Orani Joao Tempesta introduced the members of the committee, made up of 35 people, among them the Brazilian ambassador to the Holy See. 

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