World Youth Day 2013, stylizedWYDRio2013, will be the 14th international World Youth Day, an international Catholic event focused on religious faith and youth. The host city of World Youth Day 2013 will beRio de Janeiro,Brazil, as announced byPope Benedict XVI at the end of the closing Mass of World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid,Spain.[1] The events are scheduled to be held from 23 July to 28 July 2013.[2]
World Youth Day 2013 will be the second World Youth Day to be held in South America; the second to be held in Latin America with the first being held inBuenos Aires,Argentina, in April 1987; and the third to be held in the Southern Hemisphere. Additionally, World Youth Day 2013 will be the first World Youth Day to be held in a country whose primary language is Portuguese [3], and the first World Youth day forPope Francis.

Rio de Janeiro,Brazil 2013