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Pope Francis has announced that the next World Youth Day will take place in Panama in 2019.

Francis made the announcement as he wrapped up this year's global gathering of young Catholic faithful in Kraków, Poland.

He didn't specify exactly where in Panama the event would be held.

Earlier today, the Pope encouraged hundreds of thousands of young people gathered in Kraków to "believe in a new humanity" which refuses to use borders as barriers and spurns hatred among peoples.

For a second straight day, a huge crowd filled the meadow in the gentle countryside outside Kraków for Francis, whose five-day visit to southern Poland was the Argentine pontiff's first-ever time in Eastern Europe.

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