During the General Audience, Pope Francis greeted 2,500 young people who are taking part in the UNIV Congress this week. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Many Spanish speakers are participating in the congress, and they were especially animated during the pope's address in Spanish. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> \u201c...I want to ask something of all of you: That each of you, just like you make so much beautiful noise, also have the courage to go to confession during this week. Make a good confession. Thank you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Later, Pope Francis personally greeted some participants, who told him their stories and gave him some gifts. <\/p>\n \u201cI'm from Hong Kong, China. My family isn't Catholic, but my parents baptized me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI'm a soccer referee.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHow nice!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt's from the Philippines.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cVery good!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n This week, these young people have reflected on the theme \u201cRethink the Future\u201d via works of art, conferences, debates and video creation. <\/p>\n Now, they're preparing to experience the Holy Week celebrations in the center of Christianity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 28, 2018. \u201cBe testaments to happiness and the values of faith,\u201d the pope urged them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":49567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EJsiOlvO6iE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/buniveng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bunivint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cI'm happy to welcome participants of the UNIV Congress, which was established 50 years ago. I urge you all to experience the university years as integral preparation for service of others, being testaments to happiness and the values of faith.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cI cordially greet the Spanish-speaking pilgrims, particularly the groups from Spain and Latin America. These Spanish speakers are noisy...\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n