Pope Francis adds to mural at meeting with Portuguese youth

Record ID: 1736382

  • Title: Pope Francis adds to mural at meeting with Portuguese youth
  • Date: 3rd August 2023
  • Summary: CASCAIS, PORTUGAL (AUGUST 3, 2023) (REUTERS) SECURITY ON THE ROOF OF THE BUILDING (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) ATTENDEE AT EVENT, SEBASTIAO RICOH, SAYING: "I thought it (Pope addressing abuse allegations) was fantastic, he could have avoided the issue but he didn't. He gathered eight people, victims of sexual abuse, that horror committed by the church, and he was with them and gave them a comforting word and (asking for) forgiveness above all." FRANCIS LEAVING THE BUILDING IN A WHEELCHAIR AND BEING BROUGHT NEXT TO OLIVE TREE PEOPLE WATCHING WOMAN SPEAKING TO FRANCIS AND HANDING HIM BALL
  • Embargoed: 17th August 2023 12:41
  • Keywords: Pope Francis World Youth Day papal visit to Portugal
  • Location: CASCAIS, PORTUGAL
  • City: CASCAIS, PORTUGAL
  • Country: Portugal
  • Topics: Europe,Religion/Belief,Society/Social Issues
  • Reuters ID: LVA003195003082023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Pope Francis took up a paintbrush to add to a mural while holding a meeting with Portuguese youth near Lisbon on Thursday (August 3) during his five-day visit to the country.
    Francis was meeting members of the Cascais chapter of Scholas Occurrentes, an international educational movement that links about half a million schools on five continents. He is the group's main sponsor.
    The mural is one of around 30 painted by students and community members that were brought together to form a single work.
    The 86-year-old pope was given an artist's paintbrush attached to a virtual reality gadget that allowed students at a school in Mozambique to see his brush strokes on a wall in their school in real time.
    At the end of the meeting, Francis asked the audience to pray for him or to send him "good vibes".
    On Thursday evening the pope was due to address hundreds of thousands of young Catholics who have come to the Portuguese capital from around the world for the World Youth Day festivities.
    (Production: Miguel Pereira, Joao Manuel Mauricio, Silvio Castellanos, Lewis Macdonald)
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