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To reach out to the youth, the Vatican unveiled a new Jubilee mascot for Expo 2025 in Japan to the world last week — an anime-style cartoon character named Luce. It didn’t take long for the internet ...

In October 2024, the Vatican unveiled "Luce," a blue-haired anime-style mascot designed by Italian artist Simone Legno to engage a younger audience for the Holy Year 2025. The announcement sparked ...

The Catholic Church has unveiled a new cartoon mascot known as “Luce,” and the raincoat-clad anime girl has already made a splash online. Luce has been embraced and denounced by the extremely ...

Where did Luce the anime Vatican mascot come from? Every 25 years, Catholicism celebrates a ‘jubilee,’ (or ‘holy Year’) to highlight and cultivate forgiveness, reconciliation, and re ...

Her work has previously appeared at NPR, Wired, and The Verge. Luce was designed by Simone Legno, the creator of the Tokidoki brand, for jubilee, a year-long religious period in the Catholic ...

The concept of Luce—whose name derives from the Latin word "Lucerna," meaning "light"—was introduced at a special launch event for the Jubilee led by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the chief ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Vatican has unveiled its first-ever mascot “Luce,” the cheerful and hopeful face of the Roman Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year in 2025. The launch of the anime ...

In what almost feels like a parody of the Kevin Smith film Dogma, the Catholic Church recently revealed a new mascot character for the upcoming Jubilee 2025 event at Vatican City and Expo 2025 at ...

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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Meet ‘Luce’ – the Vatican’s official mascot for ...

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