‘Is WYD for rich people only?’: Pilgrims in developing world denied visas

Why Catholics from some countries can't get to World Youth Day.

Junaid Javed, a Catholic living in Pakistan, was looking forward to his appointment Monday to collect a visa to travel to World Youth Day with his wife, Sunaina.

But to his dismay, the Portuguese embassy returned his passport without a visa July 24, making him one of a rising number of people prevented from traveling to Lisbon for the world’s largest Cat…