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United World Week 2022 | Podcast | Episode #3

Petra, from Hungary and David from the USA host the United World Week Podcast. In this episode, we focus on taking care of people and our communities. We’re taking you to Bolivia, Thailand, Australia and Spain, with a special correspondent...

Churches united for an integral ecology

A Summit organized in Istanbul has reunited various exponents of the Church of Rome and Constantinople to dialogue and propose new concrete solutions towards the ecological questions. Istanbul, Turkey: the representatives of the catholic and orthodox church together with other...

Together for a new Africa: the courage to be leaders

Together for a new Africa is a training course designed and run by young people from various African countries for responsible and participatory governance, as a contribution to the common good. It enables them to address the key challenges of...

United World Week 2022 | Podcast | Episode #2

Petra, from Hungary and David from the USA host the United World Week Podcast. In this episode, we’re taking you all over the world, but especially to Italy, Latin America and South Africa. Finally with Anita, a special guest from...

A playground to teach peace is inaugurated in Loppiano, Italy

The playground, dedicated to Nicolas Crivelli, has just been inaugurated in the Focolare Movement’s little city near Florence, Tuscany. It aims to become a privileged space for peace education. Creating a space for children has been a lifelong dream for...

VOICES | Be the change in South Africa

We share the experience lived and narrated by Kereditse Mothibakgomo, a young south African from the city of Hartswater, who participated along with other peers in the project “Be the change”, born to help overcome the barriers between different racial...

Gen Rosso’s United World Week in Bosnia and Herzegovina

During the United World Week, from 4th to 8th May, the international band Gen Rosso headed back to Bosnia and Herzegovina to visit the people they had met in October 2021 and to kick off the second phase of the...

United World Week 2022 | Podcast | Episode #1

Petra, from Hungary and David from the USA host the United World Week Podcast. What is the United World Week? What is happening around the world to celebrate it? In this first episode, we’re taking you to Mexico, Colombia, Portugal...

#OPLA – When poverty meets communion: front pages of a 31-year story

By Antonella Ferrucci On the occasion of the 31-year anniversary of the Economy of Communion, the 1st Newsletter of the Leo Andringa Poverty Observatory has been published. What specific contribution does the EoC make to the first goal of the...

A project to save the sea

By Maria Chiara De Lorenzo e Patrizia Mazzola World Oceans Day is celebrated on the 8th of June, it is an occasion to celebrate and learn to care for our blue planet together. For the occasion, we bring you this...

Women, cultivators and engaged for the common good

By Gustavo Monteiro – Cidade Nova AGROECOLOGY. In Brazil, an association of the Zona da Mata Alagoana, puts the women, the cure of the environment and the sense of community at its centre. When Maria Lucilene dos Santos reached the...

VOICES | POLAND: 100 days of hospitality

The writer is Katarzyna Wasiutynska of Katowice, who is closely following, for the Focolare Movement, the accommodations for the Ukrainian refugees. Through her voice, we capture the everyday of a persevering hospitality that is never taken for granted, that talks...

Ivan, teacher and farmer in Cuba

By AZIONE MONDO UNITO Fraternity generates fraternity! The story of Iván, from Cuba, is a case in point. Thanks to his knowledge of the Economy of Communion project, he was able to create jobs for himself and his family. Faithful...

Reach Out, a project in the neighbourhood of Goregaon (Mumbai)

The pandemic isn’t yet over and neither is the work of those trying to bring relief from its consequences. This is what happens at Goregaon, a suburb in the east Mumbai area of India. The Reach Out project is them:...

United World Week 2022

This year too, the United World Week (UWW) was a showcase of global events and actions for peace and fraternity that focused on “Caring”, with a particular focus on integral ecology. The #Daretocare Campaign will continue for another year. United...

#DARETOCARE: United World Week 2022

Caring for the planet, for our societies, for the common home where humanity lives, is the central theme of the next United World Week, from 1 to 8 May. Global events and actions for peace and fraternity with a focus...

#OnePeopleOnePlanet 2022

On 22nd April, the #OnePeopleOnePlanet multimedia marathon will be back to celebrate the 52nd International Earth Day in Italy. Among other projects, ‘A Vaccine for All’ will be presented. The third edition of the #OnePeopleOnePlanet multimedia marathon promoted by Earth...

On the 14th and 15th of May, the Global Festival of “Buen Vivir” dedicated to “care”

By Melissa Mejía Flórez An open invitation to the Global Festival of “Living well” for the people and the planet which will take place on Saturday, 14th and Sunday, 15th of May at the Mariapoli Center of Castelgandolfo (Italy). Through...

Burundi: “It can be done!”

The story of Rose from Burundi who, thanks to a community microcredit project, has opened up her own restaurant. Rose lives in Burundi and has six children. A few years ago she opened her own restaurant where she prepares meals...

A peace convoy from Italy reaches Lviv, Ukraine

By Carlo Cefaloni The Italian delegation of Stop the War Now experienced three intense days, as they travelled to Lviv to bring aid, assist the most vulnerable refugees and build the foundations of a closer relationship with the Ukrainian civil...

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