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Cuba, the Economy of Communion to “ignite” ideas

Lumen is one of the small companies that participates in the Hub-EoC of Cuba, born with the idea of a person -centered economy. Arianna and George came up with the idea of Lumen because they were searching for an activity...

Narrators in support of Iranian women. The saving power of the narrated word

2022 was not an easy year to talk about peace and human rights. We have seen entire cities bombed, as in the case of Ukraine, but we also saw populations unjustly attacked by their own leaders, to try to define...

Solidarity is the art of caring one for the other

More than 30,000 migrants from the Mexican border have arrived in New York, crammed onto buses paid for by Southern governors to the East Coast to create a crisis, but New Yorkers have opened their homes. (From New York) El...

Gen Rosso in Lebanon: HeARTmony, art as a message

From 1st to 6th November, the band Gen Rosso travelled to Lebanon for another leg of the HeARTmony project: training the future trainers of inclusion through art. After its last leg in Bosnia, the HeARTmony project continues in Beirut, Lebanon....

By the hand of my brother

A thought on the beauty and the great value of fraternity through two recent films and a TV series: Tori and Lokita by the Dardenne Brothers; Spirited – the magic of Christmas by Sean Anders, and Everything asks for salvation...

Human rights and fraternity: an ever-timely commitment

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. This date was not chosen randomly: on this day in 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We talked about this anniversary with Esther Salamanca and...

Thank you Milonga, thank you volunteers of the world!

By Janeth Cárdenas Every year, millions of people volunteer throughout the whole world. The 5th of December is dedicated to them, proclaimed by the United Nations as “International Volunteer Day”. To celebrate, let’s discover the international volunteering project of “Milonga”,...

“One Hundred Assisi”: not only a number, the revolution of encounter

Facundo, the young Argentinean who tries to bring the spirit of encounter and fraternity in more than 100 places in Argentina, to build relations that will give a soul to the economy. “Mate, the Pope drinks mate. Mate, the Pope...

Coming together to live for peace

From the 1st to the 4th of December, the international congress of Living Peace International, an educational path that aims to make the commitment to living peace and for peace grow in different learning and living environments will be held...

From the streets’ hell to Avodah’s home

Keenan Fitzpatrick (31 years) co-founded Avodah, a non-profit that offers a future to the vulnerable women and children who know only the brutality of violence. (From New York) “God, lead me to places where no one else will go”. Every...

Solidarity bricks: defending the right to housing

In collaboration with Gen4 International Centre Pitalito, Columbia: a mother and her four children live in a shack built from plastic sheets. A group of children along with their parents and the community decides to help them build, brick after...

Elections, social network and the ability to interact with who thinks differently

In times of algorithms, heated spirits and (symbolic and physical) political violence, is it still possible to promote spaces of dialogue and reflections on social network? This article comes from a personal experience. I returned in Brazil, my native country,...

Virginio, Sisa and their “home”

It is a simple story, the one narrated in the movie “Utama – The forgotten lands”, and yet filled with significance: it is the story of Virginio and Sisa, two Quechua farmers of the Bolivian highlands, through whom we can...

Fall of the Berlin Wall. Thomas’ point of view

On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Or rather, it did not fall, but more precisely it was dismantled, changing the fate of the world forever. What significance did that event have in a view of history that places...

United World Week 2022 | Podcast | Episode #5

Petra from Hungary and David from the USA host the United World Week Podcast. The latest episode of the podcast. We’ll be taking stock of the latest events taking place around the world, most notably on 7 May with the...

Dancing, for harmony amongst the people

Antonella Lombardo, artistic director of the high formation Academic Dance Workshop school, of the Cultural Association DanceLab Armoni, narrates of the effort for peace and dialogue amongst the people in Italy and the Holy Land, born from the experience of...

Directors of their own story: the favelas (slum area) seen from the inside

The journey of the Pensar Cultural (Think culturally) group, that, through some audiovisual production workshops, offers the youth of the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) the possibility to narrate their own stories. They are the roads without a name...

Teens International: an international editorial board made up of teenagers

A look at the world with the aim of spreading “good news”. This is what animates the Teens International editorial offices scattered in various parts of the world and supported by the Città Nuova publishing group. A space created by...

United World Week 2022 | Podcast | Episode #4

Petra from Hungary and David from the USA host the United World Week Podcast. In today’s episode, we focus on taking care of the environment through small acts, but also taking care of our mental health. We go to Brazil,...

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