Y4UW

Mary arose and went with haste

At Lisbon, even the Youth for a United World are getting ready for the WYD, World Youth Day. “Mary arose and went with haste” (Lk 1:39) is the verse from Luke’s Gospel chosen for the XXXVIII edition. The Mother of...

Syria: Amidst the tragedy, young people are committed to life

By Youmna Bouzamel The earthquake that struck Syria on February 6 has taken its toll on its youth, in a country already weakened by twelve years of war and socio-economic hardships. Despite fear, destruction, and adverse conditions, young Syrians show...

Dare to care beyond cultural differences

In 2022 the youth of the Focolare Movement in Cameroon promoted the Youth Festival on the theme “Dare to care: peace, fraternity and ecology”, that attracted over 400 Cameroonian youth both Anglophone and Francophone. Over the years, the musical and...

Building urban gardens to save the planet

By Valentina Luna and Fernanda Barrios, with Laura Salerno A group of youth of Bogotà initiates an ecological project at a social centre that accommodates mothers and children in difficulty: to make community and caring for the others, educating to...

A helping hand for the Philippines

A fundraising campaign has been launched to help the populations hit by typhoon Rai/Odette in the Philippines. An opportunity for much-needed solidarity. 846,000. This staggering figure should be enough to say it all: it is the number of children affected...

Serbia: building a home to be a home

Although this father could finally afford to buy a house for his family, he did not have the physical ability or financial resources to renovate it himself. The community around him acted. “Many people came to help me, and in...

VOICES | LEBANON: Can the phoenix be born again?

There are many armed conflicts still going on in the world, countless peoples of the world who are living humanitarian tragedies. Today, Afghanistan is the focus of worldwide media attention but… not so for other countries. Not Yemen or Myanmar,...

Small fraternal gestures

By Silvano Roggero- From Lima A sort of logbook of small events that come to us from Lima where an entire community takes care of migrants from Venezuela on a daily basis. It is said that one of the most...

Voices from Oceania. People from the #daretocare campaign speak out

Ever since the beginning of the 2021 United World Week, members of the Focolare Movement from different cities of Oceania have engaged in concrete projects showing their commitment to caring for the environment and its people. During the 2021 United...

Coffee With Peacemakers, a network of young peacebuilders

Can peace be built over a cup of coffee? Coffee With Peacemakers is an international effort by teenagers that offers an informal setting for young people to be actively involved in building peace (#peacebuilders). “It all began very spontaneously with...

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