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Mozambique’s National Youth Celebrations Open with Call for Young People to Lead Healing, Renewal of the Country
Friday, December 5, 2025
The Third National Youth Day (JNJ) celebrations have opened in Mozambique with a call on young people to become a driving force of hope, unity, and social healing in the Southern African nation. [Credit photo: Episcopal Conference of Mozambique (CEM). Text: ACI Africa]
In his homily during the opening Mass of JNJ 2025, Archbishop João Carlos Hatoa Nunes of Mozambique’s Catholic Archdiocese of Maputo urged young people to see themselves not as the future of the Church, but as its active and essential present. “Youth is a seed God has planted in the earth and must bloom now,” Archbishop Nunes said during the Wednesday, December 3 event that was held at Our Lady of the Conception Cathedral of Maputo Archdiocese. He encouraged young Mozambicans to act not as “tourists of faith” but as “pilgrims of hope”, capable of transforming environments marked by fatigue, fear, and disbelief.
Held from December 3–7 on the theme “Hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts”, the gathering has drawn thousands of young people from dioceses across the country.
João Vissesse – ACI Africa