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José Luis: beyond the pain, serving in the crisis

A #PillsOfHope special for you, from Ecuador. Introducing José Luis Patiño, an electrical engineer in Santiago di Guayaquil. It’s a story of humanity, service, civil duty, family, caring, loving and a lot of faith. A story to convey hope in...

Cinque anni fa la Laudato Sì

Pope Francis’ encyclical on “care for our common home” – Laudato Si’ – was published on 24 May 2015. The title is taken from St Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Creatures. So we asked Friar Matteo Sito, Provincial of...

Happy to be a mother

By Giovanna Pieroni Giovanna Pieroni of AFN (Azione per Famiglie Nuove onlus) tells the story of Millycent, a support worker at a project run by the Association in Mathare, Nairobi. Having just given birth to a daughter, she overcomes the...

Tiles in a mosaic

A chance to get to know the Spanish band Mosaico GRLP (Gen Rosso Local Project). Since 2017 they’ve been performing musicals and running arts workshops to spread values of peace and non-violence among young people across Spain. Mosaico GRLP (Gen...

#PrayForHumanity

An event unites the world in one voice, on May 14, a day to #PrayForHumanity uniting religions, doctrines and cultures of the world. The Higher Committee of Human Fraternity (HCHF), called on religious leaders and faithful around the world to...

Peace Education and United World Week: Interview with Archbishop Zani

#InTimeForPeace and United World Week has brought to light stories, experiences, projects, and most of all, people. We opened up a conversation with Archbishop Angelo Vincenzo Zani, since 2012 Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, concerned with education in...

Justice and human rights

By Antonio Amato Italian penitentiary expert Antonio Amato sent us this letter. Working in Social Services at Bologna Probation Office, Dr Amato has, for the past twenty years, specialized in community service penalties as an alternative to jail sentences. He...

In time for peace: a message from Cardinal Koch

Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity sent a video message for United World Week 2020. In these difficult times we’re living through, marked by the corona virus crisis, many people are confined to their...

TgTeens#2: from Run4Unity to fraternity through music

The second special edition of TG Teens from May 3rd can be seen here! Lots of news about Run4Unity 2020, the relay race world for peace that has been running online this year, with the contribution not only of young...

TgTeens#1: a surge of energy and good news

A newscast made by teens for teens, with news, science, school, culture, sports, movies and experiences from the perspective of fraternity and dialogue, even in this time of emergency. A special edition of this news, on the occasion of Run4unity...

“From a chain of production… to a chain of solidarity”

On March 21st, the Lebanese stylist, Tony Ward, reopened his boutique in Beirut during the Covid-19 emergency, transforming a studio that normally produces high fashion clothing and wedding dresses, into a factory where hospital bed sheets and medical protective suits...

UWW #PillsOfHope: Living Peace International Special

Here are some new “pills” of hope from the Living Peace International project, prescribed for United World Week! Living Peace International is an educational project launched in Egypt in 2011 during the “Arab Spring”. Carlos Palma, originally from Uruguay, is...

The University Institute of Sophia and MPPU join United World Week

On Sunday 3 May, the Sophia University Institute and the Movement of politics and policy for unity participated in the United World Week with a special webinar, entitled “Europe and its neighbors: the time of proximity” which posed the question...

AMU onlus, a dream to tell

From Ecuador to Syria: social justice and development are the steps to building peace. “There is no peace without development. Not all people have equal access to resources or those rights that allow them to live a dignified life. This...

Gen Verde live from home

On May 1st, at 9pm, the Gen Verde International Performing Arts Group joined the events for the United World Week with a live broadcast from their homes. It was a special edition dedicated to young people, the work they do...

Javier’s story

Every year as May begins, Run4Unity sets off. It’s a global sports relay event, spanning all time zones, with the goal of promoting peace and unity in the human family. It promotes the “Golden Rule” of life (“do unto others...

The main event of UWW: #InTimeForPeace Web Event

The entire team of Collegamento CH, a production that has linked hundreds of thousands of people, scattered across five continents, who live for universal brotherhood since 1980, in collaboration with young people and the UWP editorial staff, participated in the...

Now will we make things, together: Inhabiting and going, between good practices and solutions

Dialogue in Architecture: Following the cancellation of the Habitandando Workshop in Brazil as part of the now postponed World Congress of Architects “All the worlds. Just one world” in Rio de Janiero, a new initiative is underway to find “shared...

UWW 2020: message by General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC)

Message sent by Rev. Prof. Dr.Ioan Sauca, Acting General Secretary of the World Council of Churches. We would like to thank Rev. Prof. Sauca for his support and encouragement for this edition of United World Week. We make ours his...

01.05.2020 United World Week

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...

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