February 2026
The news that Pope Leo XIV will take part in the upcoming Meeting fills us with deep gratitude.
“We are already experiencing great joy in the anticipation of welcoming and listening to the Holy Father,” says Bernhard Scholz, President of the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples Foundation. “From the very beginning of his pontificate, Pope Leo has invited us to build places of love, peace, and reconciliation. His visit makes us even more aware and responsible for what the Meeting — as a place of encounter and sincere dialogue in the search for truth, beauty, and goodness — represents for the hundreds of thousands of visitors, as well as for the volunteers and collaborators who take part in it.”
The Holy Father’s visit to the Meeting is scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, August 22, and will be followed by a Holy Mass for the city and for the entire Diocese of Rimini.
(Photo: Pope Leo XIV receives Bernhard Scholz – January 26, 2026)
