Message of Tolerance from Yogya

Kompas/Aloysius Budi Kurniawan

Around 2.000 participants of the 2017 Asian Youth Day (AYD) from 22 countries and 18,000 people sing the AYD theme song after taking part in the Eucharist celebration to close the AYD at the Air Force Academy Dirgantara Field, Yogyakarta, Sunday (8/6). The AYD event in Indonesia is a good opportunity to promote and show Indonesia’s diversity, as well as the spirit of tolerance amid numerous differences.

Tolerance was the most important message presented during Asian Youth Day 2017, August 2-6, 2017, in Yogyakarta.

The  meeting, which was attended by about 2,000 Catholic youths from 22 countries in Asia and themed "Joyful Asia Youths, Living the Gospel in Multicultural Asia”, started on July 30, 2017. The event in Yogyakarta constituted the peak of their meeting with Indonesians hailing from a number of regions from 11 dioceses. The seventh annual meeting, the first in Indonesia, had previously been held in a number of other countries in Asia.