Pope Leads Student Vigil

Pope Benedict XVI says Rosary in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Saturday, March 10, 2007, while attending a general audience granted to students of the European Universities

(AsiaNews) – A “network” which unites Europe and Asia and finds its reason for being in intellectual love, “strength of the human spirit”, capable of uniting the formative itinerary of entire generations. Uniting “the existential journey of young people, who though divided by great distances, feel a bond of personal introspection and common witness”. This is how Benedict XVI today described the prayer vigil which he presided over in the Paul VI audience hall to mark the V day for European Universities. A meeting which following the tradition of the world youth day saw united with the Pope via satellite students from Turin, Bologna, Manchester, Coimbra, Krackow, Prague, Tirana, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Manila and Islamabad Rawalpindi.