Inmates building 250 confessionals for 2019 World Youth Day

·      Inmates building 250 confessionals for 2019 World Youth Day

Inmates from La Joya and Nueva Joya prisons have begun the construction of 250 confessionals to be used in the Sacrament of Reconciliation at World Youth Day in Panama in January 2019.

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