Americas

2013 USA: Meeting in Pine Ridge

2012: Meeting in Chicago

2010: Meeting in Santiago

2007: Meeting in Cochabamba

2023 Visits in South America

During March, April and May 2023, brothers from the community visited and took part in prayers in Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. Several years after the meetings that brought together many young people or, for some countries, several years after the last visits, the aim of these trips was to re-establish, after the years marked by the pandemic, the links that exist between Taizé and the (...)

23 June

2020 Latin America: Online gatherings

At a time when Latin America was hard hit by the global Covid-19 pandemic, church-related meetings and activities were able to continue on the internet.A virtual choir In September, a virtual choir ’Echoes from the Pilgrimage of Trust’, made up of members from different Latin American countries, released a recording in Spanish of the Taizé song ’Aber du weisst den Weg für mich’ with lyrics by the (...)

24 November 2020

2017: Pilgrims of Trust in Saint Louis

From May 26 to 29, hundreds of young adults from more than thirty US states and others from Canada came together in St. Louis for a new stage in the pilgrimage of trust on earth. A new stage in many ways, for it dealt with the serious questions of racism that have recently arisen in that part of the United States and elsewhere. [1] Following the death of a black teenager, Michael Brown, (...)

8 June 2017

2014: Pilgrimage of Trust in the Caribbean

During the month of October 2014, Brother Alois and four other brothers spent several weeks visiting four Caribbean countries. Many young people came to take part in prayers in Puerto Rico, Haiti and Cuba with the journey ended with a youth meeting in the Dominican Republic. The pilgrimage began with a prayer in Caguas Cathedral, Puerto Rico. Bishop Reuben, who has visited Taizé often, gave a (...)

18 November 2014

2014 USA and Mexico

The recent stages of the pilgrimage of trust in America were three successive meetings between March and late April in Texas, in the cities of Austin, Dallas and Houston, then a Latin American meeting in Mexico City May 1-4, with host families, common prayers and workshops. Texas: Three weekends of prayer and sharing In Texas, a Baptist church hosted the meeting in (...)

6 June 2014