At 16.00 today the Holy Father Francis will visit the Scholas Occurrentes headquarters in Palazzo San Calisto in Rome, on the occasion of the opening of the new Scholas offices in the five continents.

During the visit, the Pope will meet young people from different regions of Italy who took part in the first part of the Health programme supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, and a group of young Ibero-Americans who will present the conclusions of the meeting held in Madrid a few days ago, on the theme: "Dreaming together the road to a better future". The Holy Father will then speak to students from the new Scholas centres in Sydney, Australia, Valencia, Spain, and Washington D.C., United States of America, and finally, listen to the young people of Argentina from the zone of El Impenetrable, in Chaco, inaugurating a new programme.