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Peace begins with an encounter

One year after the start of the war in Ukraine, a view of the current situation from the US: the desire for peace remains as strong as ever. It’s a year since Irina confided with me: “If we lose, may...

Kenya: That different culture that made me fall in love. Isabele’s MilONGa Volunteering experience

By Janeth Cárdenas Belmonte Isabele Amorim tells us about her “journey” from Brazil to Kenya, to live a volunteering experience that makes her discover the beauty of diversity and of dialogue amongst different people. Isabele Amorim de Deus Pires is...

Moonlight shines on the ruins: eye witness accounts from Turkey and Syria

On 6th February, powerful earthquakes struck southern and central Turkey and Syria. A disaster that has caused the destruction of entire cities. Many people are missing and thousands have died. Here are two eye witness accounts. To read more…...

Here and back again

Non Dalla Guerra (Not from the war) returns to Jordan with the volunteering camps “Here and back again” is the sentence that accompanied the participants of the volunteering camp of Non Dalla Guerra (Not from the War) in Jordan last...

Indigenous communities are the guardians of the future

Coming out of his comfort zone and reaching out to the indigenous communities of his country has allowed Jesús Becerril, a young Mexican economist, to widen his professional and vocational horizons. What started as a volunteering experience became an occasion...

Earthquake emergency in Turkey and Syria

The donations, collected through the NGOs Azione per un Mondo Unito (AMU) and Azione per Famiglie Nuove (AFN), will be used to provide with basic necessities the people of Turkey and Syria affected by the strong earthquake on 6 February...

Distant lights

‘Trieste is Beautiful at Night’, a moving documentary portraying the hopes and dreams, hardship, exhaustion and fear of Asian migrants along the Balkan route. In the distance, the twinkling lights of the city from which the film takes its name,...

Environmental challenges for the world post-COP27

Brazilian experts offer a few strategies to bypass the environmental crisis and transform the goals of the twenty – seventh ONU Conference on the Environmental Changes into reality. The last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published...

I was 4 years old and in Auschwitz I was B1148

Michael Bornstein is one of the 52 Hebrew children who survived the extermination camp. “If I were face to face with a Nazi, I would tell him that evil hasn’t won”. We will be the last generation that will hear...

Poetry against war

A film about war made of poetry: the power of imagination and the interior strength of the youth (and of the women) against the atrocity of the war conflict. A delicate yet intense Syrian film, capable of facing painful themes...

Russians and Ukrainians at Rondine, the citadel of peace

Three are the pair of “enemies” from the Russian-Ukrainian front, who bravely accepted the challenge of entering a path of confrontation with the other side. Twelve in all are the young “enemies” who in December 2022 entered to be a...

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...

We commit ourselves!

By Sara Felici Testimonies and results of the pilot year of the Giving to Safeguard the Environment Network project, through which AFN (Azione Famiglie Nuove Onlus) promoted the implementation of environmental activities in India, Kenya, Burundi and Brazil. Integral ecology,...

Peace: the paths of Pope Francis in his message for the 56th World Peace Day

On the 1st of January, the Catholic Church celebrates World Peace Day. Pope Francis invites the people and the nations to put again the word “together” in the center and points out the treasure of humanity in the human fraternity:...

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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...

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