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30 September 2023: An ecumenical prayer vigil in Rome
Prayers in Rome
A special program before “Together” at Taizé
Together | Gathering of the People of God: Preparing for Together
Regular prayers in Australia
Canada: Prayers
NZ: Prayers in Aotearoa-New Zealand
UK: Prayers
USA: Prayer Contacts
Small Provisional Communities
Small Provisional Communities
Small Provisional Communities before 2018
News from the Small Provisional Communities
A Taizé Provisional Community on the Outskirts of Lyons
A Month in Morocco
Africa
South Africa: Regular prayers
Kenya 2019: Prison visits
Meeting in Cape Town
Cape Town 2019: Meditations by Brother Alois
Cape Town 2019: Echoes of the meeting
Documents for registered participants
Music and Prayer resources
Next African stage of the Pilgrimage of Trust
What is at stake in the Cape Town meeting?
Background and reflection
Taizé and South Africa
Cape Town 2019: Some material for reading/watching about Cape Town and South Africa
Cape Town 2019: A reflection on silence
Archbishop Tutu and Taizé
Visiting the Eastern Cape province
“Giving birth to a new people” - Jaco Botha
“All began with a step of trust...” - John de Gruchy
Reflection: “Next year gathering can be a place of healing..." Ntombekhaya
Africa 2009 - 2017
Algeria: A meeting at Tlemcen: August 2011
Burundi May 2009: Building new relationships
Democratic Republic of Congo: A visit to Goma
Meetings and retreats in Nairobi : program for 2017
Mauritania: A journey from Dakar to Nouadhibou
Rwanda: Visits in November 2010
A Brother Visits South Sudan
Two Taizé brothers in South Africa
In South Sudan, summer 2013
Tanzania: Meetings in June 2010
Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso: Visits and meetings
Visits in Uganda
2016: Meeting in Cotonou
Cotonou 2016: Photos
Benin: International young adult meeting in Cotonou
Cotonou 2016: Echoes of the Preparation in Bénin and Neighbouring Countries
Video clip: The preparation of the meeting in Cotonou
Spring 2016: The Preparation Continues in Cotonou and Elsewhere
Cotonou 2016: Looking for Paths of Hope Together
Cotonou 2016: Hope and joyful gratitude
2012: Meeting in Kigali
Pilgrimage of Trust on Earth
How to prepare for the meeting
Kigali: Echoes from the Meeting
Preparation of the meeting
Practical information
Rwanda 2011: A new stage towards the meeting in Kigali in 2012
Kigali: The preparation in March
February-March 2012: Travel Log
June 2012: Travellog
Rwanda, September 2012 : News of the preparation
Kigali : Testimonies from Young People
Kigali Meeting: The last stage of the preparation...
Contacts
Photos
From Kigali to Rome
2008: Meeting in Nairobi
With 7000 young Africans in Nairobi Taizé creates a sign of peace
The meeting in Nairobi: Day by day
Nairobi: Meditations by Brother Alois
Photos: Meeting in Nairobi
Africa 2006 - 2008
February-March 2006 : In East Africa
February 2007 : In East Africa
November 2007: A visit to South Africa
April-May 2007: In West Africa
Malawi: "A house that’s complete"
Americas
Argentina: An important small step forward in reconciliation
Prayers with songs from Taizé in Panama
Latin America 2020: Online initiatives
Bolivia October 2009: Meetings in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Cochabamaba and El Alto
Pilgrimage of Trust in the Caribbean
Chile: A new stage in the pilgrimage of trust
Haiti: Messages from young people
Spring 2014: Pilgrimage of Trust in America
Mexico: Faith is alive everywhere
Visits in Peru
A Taizé brother in the United States in October-November 2023
USA: Pilgrimage of Trust in St. Louis
Spring 2017: Pilgrims of Trust in Saint Louis
USA: Meeting in Pine Ridge
Pilgrimage of trust in the USA: Taizé at Pine Ridge: “Our pot is empty - you have to fill it”
Photos: Meeting in Pine Ridge
2007: Meeting in Cochabamba
Day by day during the meeting
Photos: Meeting in Cochabamba
Taizé and Bolivia
2010: Meeting in Santiago
Taizé and Latin America
The evening before Palm Sunday
A welcome that is warm, close and simple
Celebrating life with the people of Chile
In Argentina: An un-hoped for joy
For a fraternal world: Meeting in Santiago, Chile
In Chile: the pilgrimage of trust continues…
Photos
2012: Meeting in Chicago
Meeting in Chicago: An interview with two of the brothers
Meeting in Chicago: Taizé-Chicago: Three-minute version
May 2012 meeting: Taizé in Chicago
Photos of the meeting in Chicago
Visits by Brothers in South America | Spring 2023
Asia Pacific
Video: An introduction to Taizé
Australia: News of prayers, meetings and gatherings
Cambodia: Visits of Brothers
Taizé and China
China: Regular prayers in Shanghai
Taiwan: Meetings with a brother from Taizé in April 2015
Hong Kong: Prayers and meetings to "uncover the wellspring of trust in God"
Hong Kong: Preparatory Prayers for International Meeting 2018
Visit by two brothers to Indonesia
Indonesia: October 2011: At the World Christian Forum in Manado
Visits of Brother Alois in Asia
Japan 2014: Meetings with a brother from Taize
Japan, spring 2016: "How to awaken in us the courage of mercy? "
Kazakhstan : A visit in August 2010
Laos: Young Laotians and the pilgrimage of trust
East Malaysia: Easter in Kuching
A visit in Mongolia
Myanmar: “What is the source from which we draw life?”
The Courage of Mercy in the Philippines
The Philippines, 2016: Living the Courage of Mercy
August 2018: Two brothers in the Philippines
India, February-March 2013: Visits to Vasai and Mumbai
India 2022: Visits and prayers
Several prayers in India on the pilgrimage of Trust 2019
Sri Lanka: Visits in 2012
Thailand: Next prayers in Bangkok
Timor Leste: Visits in 2012
In Vietnam
Aotearoa-New Zealand: 2019 Pilgrimage in Aotearoa
Regular prayers in Asia
Regular Prayer in the Philippines
Regular prayer in Macau
Regular prayers in Hong-Kong
Regular prayers in Indonesia
Regular prayers in Singapore
Regular prayer in Malaysia
Japan: Regular prayers in Japan
Regular prayers in India
Prayers in Vietnam
2018 Meeting in Hong Kong
August 2018: Pilgrimage of Trust in Hong Kong
Meeting in Hong Kong, August 2018: Practical information
Hong-Kong 2018: Meditations by Brother Alois
2010 Meeting in Manila, Philippines
Philippines: Meeting in Manila: "Most simply I am grateful for life"
Pilgrimage of trust meeting in the Philippines
Meditations by Brother Alois
Photos
Brother Alois 2010: Liham mula sa Ttsina
Brother Alois 2010: Sulat gikan sa Ttsina
2006 Meeting in Kolkata, India
Pilgrimage of Trust in Kolkata: On the Road of Trust, Towards a Future of Peace
Kolkata: Meditations by Brother Alois
Taizé and India
Photos: Meeting in Kolkata
September 2017: Visits and prayers in India
Europe
2023/24 European Meeting in Ljubljana
European Meeting in Ljubljana
Programme and registration
News
At the end of every year
Rostock 2022
Rostock: Arrival and Departure by Coach
Rostock: Arrival on December 26
Rostock: Arrival on 28 December and Departure Point on 1 January
Programme and information
Safeguarding at the Rostock meeting
European Meeting in Rostock
European meeting in Rostock: Information for Registered Participants
European meeting in Rostock: Messages received
European meeting 2022/23 at Rostock: Daily meditations by Brother Alois
European Meeting 2022/23 at Rostock: Meditations: Midday Prayers
Live Prayers
Six good reasons to go to Rostock
Turin 2021
European Meeting online: Programme
European Meeting in Turin | Film clip
The next European Meeting will be held in Italy, in Turin
Invitation from the Churches of Turin
European Meeting in Turin and online: Messages received
European Meeting in Turin and online: Meditations by Brother Alois
European Meeting in Turin | July 2022: Meditations by Brother Alois
A European Meeting in two successive stages: online at the end of 2021 and together in Turin in July 2022
Taizé 2020
European Meeting: A completely new kind of end-of-year meeting in Taizé and online
Two ways to take part
Local initiatives
Programme for morning prayers
Song booklet
Programme
Messages received
Meditations and Bible reflections
Wrocław 2019
Messages received for the meeting
Meditations by Brother Alois
Madrid 2018
Meditations by Brother Alois
Madrid 2018: Photos
Basel 2017
Basel 2017: Next European Meeting of Young Adults in Basel
Meditations by Brother Alois
Basel 2017: Photos
Riga 2016
A novel European meeting at Riga in Latvia
Riga 2016: Film
A short history of Latvia (1)
A short history of Latvia (2)
Riga: Photos
Meditations by Brother Alois
Valencia 2015
Meditations by Brother Alois
Photos
Prague 2014
Prague: Some clips on the European Meeting
Meditations by Brother Alois
The meeting from day to day
Photos
Strasbourg 2013
Strasbourg: 30,000 young Europeans make “a large community of friendship” visible
Strasbourg meeting: Meditations by Brother Alois
Words of welcome from representatives of the Churches of Alsace and Ortenau
Strasbourg: Echoes from the Strasbourg Meeting
Photos
Rome 2012
Rome, January 2013: Some weeks after the European Meeting
The meeting from day to day
Meditations by Brother Alois
45 000 young people in Saint Peter’s Square to pray with Pope Benedict
Rome 2012: The faith of a scientist - one of the afternoon workshops
Photos
Berlin 2011
Meeting in Berlin: 30 000 young adults on the road towards a new solidarity
The Meeting Day by Day
Meditations by Brother Alois
Photos
Rotterdam 2010
30 000 young people invited to reflect on joy and solidarity
The Meeting Day by Day
Meditations by Brother Alois
“The party is over but the legacy remains.”
Photos
Poznań 2009
Photos
“Poznań, capital of European Christian youth”
Meditations by Brother Alois
Brussels 2008
From the newspapers
Meeting in Brussels: Meditations by Brother Alois
Two addresses by Cardinal Danneels
Photos
Geneva 2007
Geneva elated to have welcomed the 40,000 young adults of Taizé
Photos
2006: 40,000 young Europeans fill up with hope
2005: Milan filled with the spirit of Brother Roger
2004 Lisbon: The Urgency of Peace
2003 Hamburg: The Face of the Church as Communion
2002 Paris: A Larger Europe Breathes the Good News
2001 Budapest: Hospitality, A Face of God
2000 Barcelona: Sharing a Hope
November 2021: COP26 in Glasgow
Praying during COP26 in Glasgow
Prayer Vigil for the Care of Creation: November
Europe 2015-2020
Lviv 2018
Lviv 2018: Provisional programme
Lviv 2018: Practical information
Lviv 2018: Prayers with songs from Taizé
Meeting Booklet
Lviv 2018: End of April, First Taizé Meeting in Ukraine
Lviv 2018: A first meeting of Taizé in Ukraine in the spring sunshine
Lviv 2018: Pictures
Lviv 2018: Meditations by Brother Alois
Austria: Meeting in Graz
Graz 2018: Graz 2018: Sharing the Future
Graz 2018: Practical Information
Graz 2018: program and songsheet
Autumn 2016: A Visit to Belarus
Hamina, City of Peace
France, All Saints 2016 : The testimony of refugees in Taizé
Spring 2016: On the island of Lesbos with those who had to leave everything
April 2016: A Volunteer on a Boat Saving Refugees in the Mediterranean
Ireland: News from Ireland
Moldova, February 2016: Come Back in the Spring!
Sweden: Pilgrimage and apples
Taizé in Brussels: New paths of trust
Romania, Easter 2016: Pilgrimage to Bucharest
Pilgrimage to Bucharest
Getting ready to take part
Celebrating Easter in Bucharest: Day by Day
Echoes from participants: To the Wellsprings of the Romanian Orthodox Tradition
Pictures from the Pilgrimage
Russia: Pilgrimage to a second springtime
2016: Continuing pilgrimage in Russia
Sweden 2016: Refugees, coffee and prayer
Sweden 2016: Prayer with Brother Alois in Lund
UK: Birmingham 2017
Echoes of Birmingham 2017
Workshops
Birmingham 2017: St. Chad’s Sanctuary
Birmingham 2017: Changing Tunes
Birmingham 2017: “Bringing Hope”
Birmingham 2017: Meeting Christ in the discarded
Europe 2010-2015
Austria, March 2011: Meeting in Vienna
Belarus, September 2014: Discovering the Source of a Unity Beyond Borders
Bosnia-Herzegovina: After the meeting in Sarajevo
Croatia: “Something that they want to share with others”
Czech Republic: Preparing “Vigils of Trust” in Prague, November 2012
Estonia 2012: Renewing trust
Finland : A Chain of Friendship
Finland: Meeting in Helsinki
Germany, 2012: A visit to Cologne
Hungary: Accompanying the refugees
Italy: March 2011: Prayers and visits
Mantova, September 2012: Brothers and volunteers visit a sorely tried region
Riga, September 2014: To the Baltic Countries as Pilgrims of Peace and Trust
Latvia 2012: Seeking signs of hope
Norway, Spring 2013: "We are truly one in Christ"
Poland, October 2014: „Days of Communion” in Katowice
Russia, Easter 2015: A Pilgrimage to Moscow, in the Light of the Resurrection
Russia: Easter 2011
Easter Celebrations in Taizé and Moscow
A Pilgrimage to Moscow
The pilgrimage to Moscow day by day
Pilgrimage to Moscow: Saturday 23 April
Pilgrimage to Moscow: Sunday 24 April
Message from Metropolitan Hilarion
Words of thanks of Brother Alois to Metropolitan Hilarion
Short film of the pilgrimage
Russia: Easter 2011: What did you experience in Moscow during the pilgrimage?
Ljubljana, May 2012: A mosaic of encounters in the midst of the Slovenian springtime
Istanbul, January 2013
Taizé and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
Pilgrimage, day by day
A word of welcome by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Meditation by brother Alois
Photos of the pilgrimage
Young People’s Impressions
UK: Weekend in Edinburgh
15-16 March 2014
Ukraine, October 2014: Faces of Hope
Ukraine, April 2015: An Eastertide Pilgrimage, between suffering and hope
Europe 2005-2010
Albania: “Visits from abroad”
Austria: A journey through Austria
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Taizé
Bulgaria: 2010: Welcomed as long lost friends
Denmark: Visits in May 2010
Denmark: “The great day of prayer"
Germany: In the North of Germany
In Greece and the Republic of Macedonia
Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Present day Greece: a land of contrasts
Hungary Octobre 2009: Meeting in Pécs, October 2009
In Latvia and Estonia: 2008
Lithuania: Meeting in Vilnius in May 2009
Russia: Brother Alois in Moscow in 2006
Malta: “A silent cry that no one hears”
Russia: In Moscow in 2006: Taizé’s gratefulness for the Russian Orthodox Church
Pilgrimage of trust in Norway: Weekend meeting in Oslo and Trondheim
Russia: A visit in October 2006
Russia: A visit in November 2007
In Spain: 2008
Sweden: 2007 Meeting in Stockholm
Romania: Brother Alois’ visit in May 2008
Sweden: 2007 Stockholm meeting day by day
UK: 2006: Prayers in Bradford Cathedral and Westminster Abbey
Spain: Meeting in Seville: May 2009
Ukraine 2006: Just before the elections
Middle East
Visits to United Arab Emirates (UAE) 2019
Lebanon 2019: International Ecumenical Youth Meeting in Beirut
2017: Pilgrimage of Trust in Egypt
Egypt 2017: Taizé on Pilgrimage to Egypt with Coptic Christians
Egypt 2017: Pictures of the pilgrimage
2017: A Christian-Muslim initiative of hope in northern Lebanon
2019: International meeting in Beirut
International ecumenical meeting of young adults in Lebanon (22-26 March, 2019)
Beirut 2019: Testimonies from young people
Beirut 2019: Meditations by Brother Alois
Beirut 2019: Photos
Two years ago: an international ecumenical meeting in Beirut
A Jew’s prayer for the children of Gaza
Prayers in Jerusalem
Israël, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon: Journal of a pilgrim of trust
Lebanon 2013: Visit of a brother
Autumn 2015: Two Brothers in the Middle East
Ecumenical gathering of young adults in Homs, Syria
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land : Practical Information
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land : Messages from Church Leaders
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: News from the pilgrimage preparation
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: Journeying Together to Sources of Hope
Taizé – Journeying Together To Sources of Hope
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: Journeying together to sources of hope
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: Which Prayers Are Open to the Public ?
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