The First World Youth Day The first World Youth Day was held in Rome in 1986 on Palm Sunday, and each year World Youth Day is celebrated at a Diocesan level on Palm Sunday.
Every 2-3 years a massive international gathering celebrates in a different ‘host city’ –Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Czestochowa (Poland), Denver (USA), Manila (The Philippines), Paris (France), Rome (Italy), Toronto (Canada), Cologne (Germany) have all been hosts.
The international World Youth Days are marked by a week long series of events for evangelisation, attended by the Pope and hundreds of thousands of youth from all over the world.