Australia’s PM welcomes young pilgrims on WYD

(15 July, 2008): -Over 150.000 young pilgrims attended Mass on the shores of Sydney Harbour in Australia on Tuesday for the Catholic church’s biggest youth festival. Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd welcomed them saying : “You are here for this great celebration of life, of faith and of hope. All you young people are so much the light of the world at a time when the world has so much darkness. Too often in the history of the world, young people travelled in great numbers to other parts of the world in the cause of war but you are here as pilgrims of peace”. He hoped that they may all be enriched during the World Youth Day celebrations in Australia.