Some WYD08 websites

http://www.oblateyouth.com/index.php?page=1 is the web address of Oblate Youth Australia. It has items related to World Youth Day and shows how some young Australians are trying to live their Catholic faith.

http://www.omiphil.org/index.asp will take you to the website of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) in the [b]Philippines.

Broken Bay Diocese, New South Wales, Australia, is just north of the Archdiocese of Sydney, the host of WYD 08. Here is the link to Broken Bay's special website for the festival: http://www.wydbrokenbay.org.au/

If you click on 'Take a tour' you'll find a map that shows why the place is called 'Broken Bay'.

The Franciscan Friars Minor (OFM) of Australia have a special website for WYD. It has photo galleries of Assisi and of the Holy Land, along with many shots taken in Australia itself: http://www.franciscans.org.au/wyd/

One of the ways in which young people prepare for every World Youth Day is to carry the Cross in pilgrimage through different parts of the world and particularly within the host country. This blog charts the course of the Cross, the Icon of Our Lady and the Indigenous Message Stick through Australia. The Indigenous Peoples have been in Australia for tens of thousands of years while Europeans arrived only in the latter part of the 18th century: http://jci-wyd2008.blogspot.com/

http://www.worldyouthday.org.nz/ , TIHEI MAORI ORA, is the official WYD08 website of New Zealand[/b]

Each of the six dioceses in the country has nominated a 'Kiwi Ambassador' to WYD08. You'll find a link to the blog of each at http://www.worldyouthday.org.nz/ambassadors