date: 01.08.2025.
Under the motto “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” (Ps 122:1), the 36th Youth Festival will be held in Medjugorje from August 4 to 8. This spiritual retreat for young people will once again gather tens of thousands of young people from all over the world this year, and on the eve of the beginning of the International Youth Prayer Meeting, a press conference will be held on Monday, August 4, 2025 at 10 a.m. in the Hall of St. John Paul II (the yellow hall behind the outer altar of the Church of St. James).
The media will be addressed by the Apostolic Visitor with a special role for the parish of Medjugorje, Archbishop Aldo Cavalli, and the parish priest of Medjugorje, Fr. Zvonimir Pavičić, who will present the program of the 36th Youth Festival in more details.
A video broadcast of this press conference, as well as the entire Youth Festival program from the White Dome of the Church of St. James in Medjugorje, will be available live on YouTube and Facebook channels Media Mir Medjugorje in Croatian, English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Cantonese, Korean, Ukrainian, Portuguese and Romanian.
Journalists will be able to address questions at this press conference in Croatian, Italian, English, German and Spanish.
We ask all interested media representatives to confirm their attendance, or to download the press conference from our platforms, by e-mail: mir@medjugorje.hr
The Information Center Mir Medjugorje, as the holder of the exclusive right to record the audiovisual works and photographs in all prayer spaces of the parish of Medjugorje, invites the media to express their interest in the audiovisual broadcast of the Youth Festival.
If you have a TV or radio channel or any other digital media through which you would like to broadcast the Youth Festival program, please contact us at the e-mail address: mir@medjugorje.hr, so that we can inform you about the conditions and permitted methods of transmission. The transmission of our signal is not permitted without signing an agreement with the Information Center Mir Medjugorje on the transfer of television and/or radio broadcasting rights.
Being assured that the media enable our unity and a better dissemination of Our Lady’s messages in the world, we kindly greet you from the Information Center Mir Medjugorje, whose employees bring news about Medjugorje and the Queen of Peace to your homes every day.
