Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jul 29, 2013 / 09:43 am
Young global participants in Rio de Janeiro's World Youth Day say that traveling to Krakow, Poland in 2016 for the next event "will be a great challenge," but that "we'll be there."
Arturo Fernandez, from the Diocese of Morón in Argentine, told CNA that young people "will do as much as possible to attend the next World Youth Day. We get together and pray hard to be able to go."
Being a part of the global youth event in Rio "has been an experience that money cannot buy," he said. "There are many people who want to be near the Pope and that has touched us greatly. We've been able to hear it, see it, and we have been around him – he always has something to say."
Pope Francis announced the Polish city as the site of the next World Youth Day at the close of Sunday Mass in Rio on July 28. The event is sure to attract millions.