Vibewire Inc, in partnership with SBS, communicated the voice of a generation at World Youth Day events, held in Sydney, July 15 to 20, 2008. PROJECTeye generated national and international dialogue on a range of diverse youth perspectives and opinions, ensuring that young Australians were heard, regardless of their religious, cultural or regional backgrounds.
PROJECTeye had many interesting and unique aspects, showcased in a specifically designed website allowing young people from Australia and around the globe to be a part of WYD08. For WYD08 to be a truly national event, PROJECTeye …
Vibewire Inc, in partnership with SBS, communicated the voice of a generation at World Youth Day events, held in Sydney, July 15 to 20, 2008. PROJECTeye generated national and international dialogue on a range of diverse youth perspectives and opinions, ensuring that young Australians were heard, regardless of their religious, cultural or regional backgrounds.
PROJECTeye had many interesting and unique aspects, showcased in a specifically designed website allowing young people from Australia and around the globe to be a part of WYD08. For WYD08 to be a truly national event, PROJECTeye …
Biwa Kwan
Australia’s young artists wade into the World Youth Day debate about the role of faith in today’s society and what it means to them, reports Biwa Kwan.
In the great tradition of the cow parade, first born in Switzerland in 1986 and made famous in Chicago 1999, thirty-three fibreglass statues of Jesus will be displayed in various city locations during World Youth Day week.
The public art exhibition is the brainchild of 23-year-old art history graduate Helena McCarthy who was inspired by her 2005 WYD experience in Cologne, Germany to create …
Belinda Merhab
Having been united in their struggle to merely exist for hundreds of years, 20 000 Lebanese Maronite Catholics were united today for a celebration. Belinda Merhab reports from the gates.
In the crisp 7am cold, volunteers bustled around Parramatta Stadium, rolling out the red carpet for the arrival of the Patriarch of the Maronite Church, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir from Lebanon.
For the Maronite Church, an Eastern rite denomination of the Catholic Church, remaining Catholic in the mostly-Muslim Middle East has been a constant struggle that has dated back from the Crusades …
Biwa Kwan
Biwa Kwan spoke to young people from other non-Catholic Christian denominations – Pentecostal, Baptist, Anglican, Protestant, Mormon – and asked them what they thought all the fuss was about.
While World Youth Day has its fans and detractors amongst non-Catholic Christian youth, an overwhelming sense was that World Youth Day is in reality a Catholic World Youth Day and something non-Catholic Christian youth felt outside of.
For 19-year-old Mormon, Annette Lin the sticking point was that World Youth Day misleads youth, not only on the point that it is a week …
