Japan WYD pilgrims raise their banner
A large banner reading “Love from Japan,” carried by two Japanese pilgrims, has drawn the attention of many World Youth Day participants, representing the country which is less than 1 percent Catholic, reports the Catholic News Agency.
“A friend of ours stitched it – it is the Virgin Mary, all the way from Japan,” said Tetsu Itoh, a World Youth Day social media volunteer who explained the attention-grabbing banner.
The light gray banner depicts the Virgin Mary wearing traditional Asian attire, holding the boy Jesus, with both dressed in light colors. The banner says “Love from Japan” in English and Japanese. An image of it can be seen in the Catholic News Agency report.
Kyoko Kitagawa, another Japanese social media volunteer for World Youth Day, said her friend Abe Mihoko painstakingly stitched the banner onto cloth back home in Japan.
Itoh and Kitagawa are in Madrid serving as volunteers for World Youth Day’s social media effort, a top priority for the organization. Resources including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube allow Internet users around the world to follow a constant stream of updates, and make a “virtual pilgrimage.”
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Japan represented at World Youth Day, despite its few Catholics (Catholic News Agency)
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