United World Week

04.04.2023

The Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development to Co-Sponsor the 2023 Run4Unity

Through the Laudato Si’ Action Platform, the Vatican backs a global, youth-led sports and tree-planting event, led by the young people of the Focolare Movement and spanning time zones, countries and cultures to build peace and green the planet. On...

10.05.2022

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...

30.04.2022

#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...

29.04.2021

Call for ‘United World Ambassadors’

Do you want to be part of a global network of young protagonists that strives to make universal fraternity visible? Do you want to contribute to a united world, representing the United World Project and New Humanity NGO in your...

01.05.2020

The way of life and the culture of fraternity

Adriana Cosseddu, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Sassari and Director of “Communion and Law” international network of legal professionals, guides us through the themes of United World Week 2020 (justice, legality, human rights, peace), to raise our...

08.07.2019

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...

11.04.2019

“NO ONE IN NEED” – United World Week 2019

A week to change yourself. A week to change the world. 1 – 7 May 2019 We are the teens and young people of the Focolare from all around the world and together with adults we launch to anyone who...

20.04.2017

The peace one builds through dancing

I arrived late, when the class had already started, because I got a wrong exit on the highway. Not so bad, after all, because the dancers I had to interview were already engaged in their session of classical dance –...

06.04.2017

The countdown for the 21st United World Week started!

In these months, we would like to generate excitement and expectation, by highlighting initiatives and actions that generate reciprocity, positivity, and peace. A tam tam that, starting slowly, will rise up to generate much noise in the world! Let us...

03.03.2017

“Pulse”, the Meeting of the Youth for a United World

It will take place in the Permanent Mariapolis of Loppiano, in the province of Florence, Italy, from April 29 to May 1, 2017, on the theme of Peace.

The title is provocative: "Change your Heart. Change the World". That...