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So, in fact, it later became another district of Damascus. [10] Over time, refugees living in Yarmouk improved and expanded their housing. The district became densely populated. Two main roads, named "Yarmouk Street" and "Falasteen Street", were lined with shops and filled with service taxis and microbuses that ran through the camp. [2]
Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) is an international Catholic youth movement founded by Bishop Bernard Sheil in Chicago in 1930. It became a major factor in the development of race relations in the US Catholic Church following World War II .
World Youth Day (WYD) is an event for the youth organized by the Catholic Church that was initiated by Pope John Paul II in 1985. Its concept has been influenced by the Light-Life Movement that has existed in Poland since the 1960s, where during summer camps Catholic young adults over 13 days of camp celebrated a "day of community".
Another movement is ECYD which focuses on youth service projects and personal prayer through a network of gender-specific clubs. Jesus Youth is a 28-year-old catholic youth movement, which begin in India and now present many countries around the world.
Camp Ondessonk is an outdoor, Catholic residential youth camp run by the Diocese of Belleville. [1] [2] It is located in the Shawnee National Forest of Southern Illinois, near Ozark, Illinois. The mission of the camp is "Exceptional outdoor and spiritual adventures empowering kids of all ages."
The patrons of the World Youth Day 2023 are Catholic figures who, [12] [13] in their youth, [14] took decisive steps on the path to holiness: [15] [16] Saint John Paul II (pope) Saint John Bosco (priest and founder of the Salesian Congregation) Saint Vincent of Saragossa (deacon and martyr) Saint Anthony of Lisbon (Franciscan friar and Doctor ...
The Catholic Church in Syria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. In 2020, there were 192,000 Catholics in Syria, approximately 1% of the total population. [ 1 ]
The Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus is a Syriac Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in Syria. While a metropolitan see , the Archeparchy of Damascus is without suffragans and is exempt directly to the Syriac Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch .