Intro: Kairos Global asked a few people about their WYD 2023 preparations. We are pilgrims, not tourists… Any World Youth Day pilgrim will be able to recall the long walks, transport delays and difficulty in finding food, which is an integral part of the WYD experience. This is why it is so important for pilgrims to have as their mantra, ‘We are pilgrims, not tourists’. What is the real difference between a pilgrim and a tourist? Both a pilgrim and a tourist may follow the s

Author: Soumya Simon Intro: Soumya Simon gives us a brief understanding of depression, ways to identify it, and how to help those suffering from it. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit (Psalm 34:18). A few years ago when some of my old friends gathered together to catch up on what was happening in each one’s life and to spend a little time in sharing and prayer, one of them shared about how she and her husband struggled through depression and

Author: Jacinta Heley Intro: We can drive away depression and find healing through prayer, writes Jacinta Heley, as she recounts a story of one such healing. ‘Lupe’, short for ‘Guadalupe’, had been bedridden for a number of years, not with cancer or MS or any other degenerative disease – but with depression. Depression had placed her in bed for years, as it does many people, in an often hidden phenomenon. Fr Blount, a famous missionary priest tells the story on Youtube1. He