VATICAN (CNS): Pope Francis, the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses and local organisers have agreed to postpone by one year the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress, the Vatican announced on April 23.
Because of the Covid-19 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and its impact on the travel and assembly of large groups of faithful, the pope, the papal committee, congress organisers and the bishops of Hungary decided to hold the congress, to be held in Budapest, in September 2021, instead of this year.
The announcement came a few days after the Vatican announced the next World Meeting of Families would be pushed back until June 2022 and the next international gathering for World Youth Day would be postponed to August 2023.
