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Remembering World Youth Day 2008

World Youth Day - Sydney 2008The first Oceania World Youth Day was celebrated in Sydney in 2008.

Almost 500 000 people and more than 200 countries took part in the WYD week’s celebrations, but over the weekend more than 1 million people attended the festival events. In addition, there were more than 600 bishops and cardinals and 6 600 reporters from around the world. Pope Benedict also attended.

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