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Sunday, 20 August, 2000, 01:24 GMT 02:24 UK

In pictures: Catholic jamboree


Record numbers of young Catholics have massed on Rome's outskirts for Vatican World Youth Day celebrations. The gathering - the largest so far of the Catholic Church's jubilee year - heard a programme of music from around the world in temperatures which soared to nearly 40C.

Aerial view of Rome University's Tor Vergata campus

Popemobile

Cheering crowd

Pope John Paul II welcomes young pilgrims

Dancers performed during the mass at the Tor Vergata university

Pope with representatives from all five continents

Nuns next to girl in underwear

Crowds are sprayed to keep them cool

Young pilgrims pray with Pope John Paul

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