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00:03 Report / Alex Forrest Whiting
00:42 Pope Leo XIV

((The Vatican says more than one million people - most of them young - have gathered for an open-air mass outside Rome . It was the finale to a weeklong youth event marking the Catholic Church's Jubilee year. Pope Leo 14th has urged young people not to give up hope of building a better world and to spread their enthusiasm wherever they go.))

Script:

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Pope Leo greets the young faithful 

as he arrives to lead mass 

for hundreds of thousands of people.

0:14 ATMO
"God bless you all!

0:15
The Mass includes 
0:19
Holy Communion and prayers - 
0:23
which focus on children caught up in war.

0:28
19. (SOUNDBITE) (English) POPE LEO, SAYING:
We are with the young people of Gaza. We are with the young people of Ukraine. With those of every land bloodied by war. My young brothers and sisters, you are the sign that a different world is possible."

0:55
Many young people have been camping outside Rome 
01:01
for a week of festivities to mark the 
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Catholic Church's Jubilee year - 
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which the Vatican celebrates every 25 years.

01:11
And to catch a glimpse of the new Pope.

01:14

8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PILGRIM FROM NORWAY, THOMAS HOIBY, SAYING:
"I like the new Pope. I'm actually converting, so I'm not Catholic yet. So the Pope gives me really hope for a new future for all people.

01:26

ATMO POPE.

01;28
As this week long celebration 
01:30
draws to a close, 
01:34
many leave Rome praying and hoping 
01:37
for a better future.

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