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Bridget's avatar

This is sad to hear. The WYD theme song is about Mary, and although its focus is only on the Visitation and saying yes to God, I am thinking that she also knows what it is like to be poor, unwanted, and to be turned away, and told there is no place for her here, and rejected (and even now when she is the queen of heaven, many Christians are not interested in giving her the time of day, so I am sure she has not forgotten what it is like.) I will ask her to pray for these people who are being turned away.

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Sue Korlan's avatar

The obvious solution is to hold World Yourh Days in poorer countries where there wouldn't be a problem with attendees wanting to overstay their visas. Haiti, Armenia, East Timor, Nigeria, Uganda might be suitable places to hold World Youth Day. The Church could help build the necessary structures and facilities, and even provide workers if there weren't enough locally to handle the influx.

And instead of giving these poor people only 90% of the money they invested in going, they should, this time in this rich country that won't allow the poor access to a great spiritual event, give them 110% because they were discriminated and had such a wonderful opportunity stolen from them.

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