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Scandinavian society is secularized. It is a society in which the young “perceive themselves as individuals in a world shaped by non-Christian values”, and in which the Christian values are for the most part transmitted by the Lutheran Church. The way of evangelization is that of youth work within the parish communities, “as in the […]

A Church capable of “putting itself in the shoes” of the young, listening to their difficulties and offering them credible models: that’s the challenge of the youth apostolate in Romania, formulated on the basis of a process of self-criticism inside the Church. The negative experiences and criticisms of the new generations – point out those […]

The current youth apostolate of the Czech Republic needs to be seen in the light of the more recent decades in the country’s history, characterized by a Communist regime that “tried systematically to educate in atheism”, even though “the spirit of the young instinctively resisted this pressure”. After the “fall of the wall” (1989), the […]

“Opposition to authority, the assumption of models of conduct disseminated by subcultures, moral relativism, antagonism to the institution of marriage and to its moral law, the search for strong sensations (drugs, alcohol), the search for religious experiences outside the Church, and the lack of capacity for moral and psychological reaction”: these are, in the view […]

A “large group” of young people who “have no contacts with the Church”, a “considerable group” of young people who “participate in one or more Church-run activity”, and a “small group that is closely involved in the life of the Church”: the relation of the young with the ecclesial community can, in the view of […]

Profound Christian roots exist in Maltese society. They can be traced in the way of thinking, in language, in forms of social conduct. These roots need to be revived in present-day conditions to respond to the challenges posed by the young in a society in continual transformation. “The young today are particularly responsive to the […]

A multicultural society, within which the young move frenetically, passing “from one world to another, from family to school, to sport to groups of friends”, is that described by the leaders of the youth apostolate in the little Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The Church is faced, they explain, by “a generation that ‘thinks with its […]

Some 80% of Italian youth declare that they believe in God, but “as a private matter that is not translated into religious practice”. In Italy, many youngsters feel that the Church is “remote”; that’s why there’s a need “for a Christian community less sociological and more one of faith and prayer: a community that is […]

A challenge for the young to become “more idealistic” and “rediscover the joy of service”: this is the most urgent task that awaits the Irish Church, in which the youth apostolate is still not very popular and the young, in spite of the fact that they have attended Catholic schools for years, reveal widespread religious […]

The English bishops, in describing the religious convictions of the young in the UK, speak of a Christian “affinity” and “points of contact” with those who live “implicitly in a Christian way though without any explicit Christian faith, practice and membership”. But they also point out the “sensation” that this “Christian background is a minority […]