Some 20,000 pilgrims from 90 countries around the world are expected in Rome next weekend for the Jubilee of the Sick and the Healthcare World. They will be patients, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, health care workers and technicians from Italy, the United States, Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, France, Mexico, Germany, Croatia, the Philippines, Peru, Congo, Australia, Chile, Congo, Ethiopia, Canada, and Cameroon. Many associations will also be present. The jubilee event will begin on the morning of Saturday, April 5, with the opportunity for all participants to experience their own pilgrimage to St. Peter's Holy Door. In the afternoon, "Dialogues with the City", the cultural, spiritual and artistic events in the squares of central Rome organized by associations, organizations and movements, will return. At Piazza di Spagna, from 4 p.m., the meeting on the theme "The value of gift and solidarity", organized by the Ministry of Health, with speeches by Msgr. Rino Fisichella, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization; Orazio Schillaci, Minister of Health; Roberto Gualtieri, Mayor of Rome; and Francesco Rocca, President of the Lazio Region. From 3 to 6 p.m., the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross will instead host the "Hospice = Hope" conference, organized by the Campus Bio-medical University of Rome, on the topic of palliative care. In Piazza Risorgimento, the American Heart Association is organizing an event teaching cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers in English, Spanish, French, Polish and German. The Fratres association, in collaboration with the Italian Episcopal Conference's National Office for the Pastoral Care of Health, will promote a blood donation awareness event in St. John's Square with an extraordinary blood collection from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. At the same time, in Piazza della Chiesa Nuova and Piazza San Salvatore in Lauro, a number of health federations will offer health education activities from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. In Piazza dell'Oro, the Office for Health Pastoral Care of the Vicariate of Rome has organized from 4 to 6:30 p.m. information and awareness activities on the issue of addiction. In the Church of Santa Monica, Piazza Sant'Uffizio 8, a conference to present Blessed Benedetta Bianchi Porro, a medical student who died of a rare disease, in dialogue with her sister Emanuela and Don Andrea Vena, biographer-postulator of the cause for canonization. Moments of prayer for the sick will also be held, with Eucharistic adoration and catechesis by religious congregations with charisms of care, from 4 to 5 p.m. In particular, in the Church of St. Mary of the Suffrage will be offered the moment of prayer "On the steps of Blessed Luigi Novarese. Finding blessing when life is traversed by fragility" and in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene the initiative "On the steps of St. Camillus de Lellis. The heart unifies a fragmented life”.