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Progress report on Fraternity

By Stefania Tanesini. Roberto Catalano of the Focolare Movement’s Centre for Interreligious Dialogue offered his insights into the context and geopolitical events leading to the drawing up of the historic Document on “Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living together”,...

Algeria: to educate is to make the world a better place

By Claudia Di Lorenzi. Amine Mohammed Sahnouni, a young Algerian sociologist, sees education as a process. “We need to give the children more responsibility, trust in them and guide them so that their leadership abilities develop from an early age.”...

A school for United World Ambassadors

The program will take place at the French Mariapolis Center of Arny, 35 km South of Paris. The aim is enhancing the skills of an international group of 20 young people, most of them change-makers, peace-builders, and community leaders, training...

A world in colors

By Letizia Spano. From July 7 to 22, a summer school took place in Loppiano, the international town of the Focolare Movement in Italy, for young people who wish to commit themselves to build a united world. Its red thread...

Where giving is receiving

A trip to the Café con Leche School in the Dominican Republic Fifteen young people from Texas made a trip to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to teach English at a school founded by Focolare member Marisol Jimenez in a poor...

The Economy of Francesco

He wants mostly young people to be there, but not only them. Pope Francis convened a major meeting on economic issues in Assisi for 2020. Pope Francis invited young people, entrepreneurs, and economists to Assisi, next year, to promote together...

Live to give until no one is in need

By Christopher Piazza. 70 young people gathered for United World Week 2019, focusing on work and economy. New York may be known to some as The Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, or even the concrete jungle, but two...

Trump crosses the threshold

By George Ritinsky. First US president to cross the border of the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, still formally at war. An historic moment that gives hope. The Russian magazine rt.com aired two interesting videos of the historic meeting...

Paglaum, a name that means “hope”

Cinema, a group of Filipino teenagers, and their ability to tell stories that give hope. In the summer of 2016, on the island of Cebu, archipelago of the Philippines, the Fondazione Bukas Palad di Cebu (BPCFI) organized the first audiovisual...

Chile: a Green Desert against Poisons

By Alberto Barlocci. In the middle of Atacama, the driest region in the world, a researcher has achieved a twofold positive effect: the creation of a green area that absorbs the emissions from a mining industry and the development of...

Kenya: Refugees seeing the future

By Stefania Tanesini. Insights from Congolese journalist Liliane Mugombozi, currently based in the Focolare centre in Nairobi. She works at the Jesuit Refugee Service in the Kenyan capital: “African migrants? The majority are not going to Europe but are moving...

“Why fai il bullo?”

By Anna Lisa Innocenti. Italy – The project “Why fai il bullo?” (Why are you a bully?) aims at training teenagers help their peers deal with this phenomenon. Teenagers are trained to understand bullying, to prevent it and also to...

We, the Climate Generation

By Matteo Pota. The “We, the Climate Generation” event, which will be held on June 12 in New York, will be live on Facebook from the United World Project page. On June 12, people of all ages, faiths, and nationalities...

Many voices for Mae Sot

A snack that a boy didn’t like and the innocence of children. This is the beginning of an experience of brotherhood that connects Latina (Italy) to Mae Sot (Thailand). It all started one morning, one like the others, or at...

Prophetic Economy: the binomial of ecology and economics

In Rome, on June 9, 2019, an intergenerational day of training and sharing will be held, promoted by Prophetic Economy and entitled, “The Biodiversity of Talents for the Care of the Common Home.” «After “Prophetic Economy, For The People, Planet...

Little Rock, Arkansas (USA): Victory over violence

Suppose that just for once the media stopped being part of the problem and became part of the solution. This is a story by Austin Kellerman, news director at the local NBC TV station, and his team. They worked to...

”A scent of humanity”: the story of Abdullah Al Atrash, EoC entrepreneur in Dubai

BY Beatrice Cerrino. If you have the courage to think outside the box and manage your own business while aiming at creating something really fair and just for your employees, for the environment and for your community, you can obtain...

A hub to support the internal displaced people of Cameroon

By Godric Mbunya. Faced with the emergency of internally displaced persons (IDPs), the EoC-iin (Economy of Communion International Incubating Network) Hub of Cameroon has taken concrete actions to restore hope. In the wake of the current socio political crisis plaguing...

United World Week in Africa

To say “Enough with Poverty” and rebel against a two-speed world, that of the rich and that of the poor, the children and young people of the Focolare throughout the world, together with adults, have launched, on the occasion of...

Genfest in Burkina Faso “Au-delà des frontières”

On Sunday, May 12, another terrorist attack on a Christian community has shaken Burkina Faso. A group of about 20 armed men burst into the Catholic church dedicated to Blessed Isidore Bakanja in the village of Dablo in the north...

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