ROMANS ASKED: "OPEN YOUR HOMES AND HEARTS TO YOUNG PEOPLE"

VATICAN CITY, MAR 2, 2000 (VIS) - In a letter sent to 1.5 million Roman families, Cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar for the diocese of Rome, called on them to "open your homes with simplicity, a few square meters for a sleeping bag, and a smile for the young pilgrims of World Youth Day."

"Rome is a great city, most especially because it has a heart filled with hospitality," says the letter. "Next summer Rome will be the youngest city in the world. Let us open our homes to make these young people feel at home." A form to be filled out by families interested in hosting young people accompanied the letter.
World Youth Day takes place in Rome from August 14 to 20. It has been estimated that between one and two million young people from around the world will take part.

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