It will be half a million from 146 different countries, 68 percent from Europe. For the Jubilee of the young people, who will open on July 28 and will have its culmination in Tor Vergata with the vigil of August 2 and the 3 Mass with the Pope, there will also be children from the countries at war, from South Sudan, from Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, the Holy Land. It will be, explained the prefect of Rome Lamberto Giannini, “a positive event of peace and hope in a complicated period”. Municipality, Region, Civil Protection, Vatican are at work, in a coordinated way, to ensure that everything takes place for the best. In all, explained Monsignor Rino Fisichella, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for evangelization, Rome provides “370 parishes, 400 schools, 40 extra school structures, private houses and host families”. In addition, the Rome Fair will be transformed, for the occasion, n a “city in the city” to host about 25 thousand young people. Services and security will be guaranteed, thanks to 4,000 belonging to the police, a thousand of the municipal police, almost a thousand of the firefighters. Over four thousand additional volunteers hosted by the Lazio Region, at 400 extra shifts of extraordinary service, 69 dedicated buses, 550 health operating units, 20 refreshment points, about 3,500 affiliated commercial establishments.
The car has been able to guarantee the boys to fully experience this experience that will see 70 events in the context of the dialogues with the city that will take place from Mars 29 to Thursday 31. And then between 80 and 90 thousand young Italians will be in San Pietro on 31, while 800 priests will be available for the penitential day in Circus Maximus.
The Jubilee, explained the mayor Roberto Gualtieri, “is an event of civil dedication”, for this reason capable of mobilizing resources and energy that an “investment for the city” are operated because the works and the organization model will remain available to the capital. An added value in a “time in which” each for itself “often prevails”. Instead an event like “the Jubilee manages to bring out the sense of community and the value of civic cooperation”.
