Leon, Mexico, Feb 26, 2019 / 13:51 pm
More than 37,000 young people made a pilgrimage Saturday to the Christ the King shrine on Cerro del Cubilete in Mexico's Guanajuato state.
The Feb. 23 pilgrimage was organized, as it is each year, by the national youth movement Witness and Hope and had as its theme "Youth to politics: Commitment of faith, solidarity and peace."
This year the date of the 10 mile walk was changed from the last Saturday of January to the last of February, due to World Youth Day in Panama, which took place Jan. 22-27.
The aim of the pilgrimage, the organizers said, is "to prepare ourselves to engage in politics, true politics, without labels, without euphemisms, in the true sense of attaining the common good."