Overview
- AFP reported several thousand participants at the Accor Arena on Saturday, with an evening worship event led by the pop praise group Glorious on the program.
- Earlier on-site reporting from Libération described largely empty stands in the morning, highlighting conflicting accounts of attendance over the course of the day.
- A morning Mass in the main hall was presided over by Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga of Bangui, underscoring international participation.
- The schedule features athlete testimonies coordinated by Holy Games, a remote contribution from footballer Olivier Giroud, and the presence of relics of Thérèse of Lisieux and Carlo Acutis.
- Offstage activity included more than one hundred exhibitors, a ‘school of preaching’ workshop with planned street outreach in Paris, and organizers reaffirming a broad tent after deprogramming the identitarian group Academia Christiana.