Around 500 mostly young Protestants and Catholics, mainly from Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, but also from Saxony, made their way to Rome on Saturday.
You will meet Pope Francis there on Monday in the Vatican.
Magdeburg / Erfurt / Dresden / Rome - The group is moving into bungalows on a campsite near Rome, said one of the organizers on Saturday.
There is even a specially set up pilgrims' office.
A big opening prayer with all those involved should then take place on Sunday.
Several choirs will make music.
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The fellow travelers are participants in the joint ecumenical campaign "With Luther to the Pope" of the Diocese of Magdeburg, the Evangelical Church of Anhalt of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM), as the EKM announced.
The itinerary also includes a trip to Castel Gandolfo to the papal residence on Lake Albano.
There will be a joint service there with Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, it said.
On Sunday, the project “With Luther to the Pope” was awarded the Ecumenical Prize of the Working Group of Christian Churches.
dpa