THE NATIONAL Youth Day (NYD) celebration slated for May 2021 has been moved to 2022 as the Covid-19 situation in the country remains unresolved.
“[T]he physical gathering of NYD will happen not in May 2021 but in 2022,” Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Episcopal Commission on Youth Executive Secretary Fr. Conegundo Garganta said in an interview with CBCP News.
“The gathering will now take place in a still undetermined month in 2022… We pray that things will improve and that 2022 will be a better year for our young people to come together,” he added.
The Archdiocese of Caceres in Naga City will still host the National Youth Day in 2022.
The NYD is part of the Church’s nine-year preparation for the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines, originally scheduled for 2021.
It is hosted by a different diocese every two or three years, with local celebrations happening in the interceding years.
In 2019, the Archdiocese of Cebu hosted the NYD, which was attended by more than 20,000 pilgrims from across the country.
CBCP announced a year-long celebration of the 500th year arrival of Christianity in the Philippines from April 2021 to 2022. Sophia T. Sadang
