Vatican City, Jul 9, 2013 / 07:35 am
The Vatican has confirmed over 267 venues will offer lessons on the faith during Pope Francis' World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil later this month.
The catecheses – teaching sessions on the faith – will be given by bishops and cardinals for three days during between July 24 and 26, with 133 of them in Portuguese, 50 in Spanish and 25 in English.
Italian and French are the next largest language groups with 15 sessions each, while Germans will have the chance to hear the faith eight times and Poles will being able to find it in their native tongue in five places.
In addition, the faith will be explained in Arabic, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Czech, Slovenian and Danish.