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Noé is Mexican, Christopher is from the USA. They live close to each other but between them stands a wall which, instead of separating, has united them in a shared attempt to build a more “united world”. Their means to...

“A better Africa can only result in a better world”

More than one hundred young people from 10 African countries gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, for the second summer school of the project “Together for a New Africa”. From 27 December 2019 to 5 January 2020, more than 100 young people...

Welcome, protect, integrate

Stories, peoples and migration in Latin America. A perspective from Peru. Interview with Silvano Roggero by Paolo Balduzzi We are talking of a real exodus. Venezuela has seen the second largest mass migration of a nation’s population in the world....

Amazon Project, a transforming initiative

It came about as an action of Catholic evangelization that grew up into a consolidated project that generates relationships of reciprocity between locals and volunteers. Óbidos is one of the many villages on the banks of the Amazon River. It...

Want to unite the world? Start singing!

By Conleth Burns Conleth Burns from Northern Ireland, currently part of the United World Project’s Rome office, tells his experience in the “Mariapoli Romana” Community Choir. I never joined my school choir. I thought I wasn’t good enough and it...

From Lebanon to Bolivia, Protests with a Sense of Unity

Political and social conflict has characterized many South American countries in the last two months. Almost with a ‘domino effect’, problems started in Ecuador, then exploded in Chile and, at the same time, in Bolivia (where the crisis still continues)...

Peace, a journey of hope

By Javier Baquero Maldonado* Commentary on Pope Francis’ message for the World Day of Peace 2020. On January 1, 2020, Pope Francis in perfect continuity with Pope Paul VI who, back in 1968, established the Day of Peace on the...

Say no to war, to every act of war

We are going through times of great anxiety and concern because of the winds of war blowing from the Middle East, with new tensions between the US and Iran. Brotherhood between people and among peoples seems to be far away....

Working together for the good of humanity

Partnership agreement signed between FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and New Humanity, the international NGO of the Focolare Movement. Objective: to continue to work together to defeat world hunger by 2030. This agreement reinforces collaboration that...

GIFT4RELATION

At the Sophia University Institute (Loppiano – Florence), a training opportunity for people who want to (re)discover and enhance the relational power of giving. It is a well-known fact that giving is a way to meet the real needs of...

Jacques Mourad, hostage of ISIS

BY Aurelio Molè. The story of Father Jacques Mourad, witness of peace, amid violence. Since the beginning of the war in Syria, Fr. Jacques Mourad, 52, a Syriac-Catholic monk, had chosen to remain among his people — despite the danger....

“Don’t be duped!”

The after-school experience for the children of the nomad camp of Pistoia, Italy, reported through the voice of Cristina, mother, teacher, and volunteer in the small wooden school in the camp of Brusigliano. “One day, about five years ago, my...

The toughest challenge in the city of Man

By Giovanna Pieroni. In a country where undernourishment is one of the main causes of the infant mortality AFN onlus works to save many children’s lives. Crossing a liana bridge is not a difficult task, except for when one has...

“Their needs were always in plain sight…”

By Chiara Catipon. A young man who grew up binational in border country decides to take action. “I’ve been going back and forth between Mexico and the U.S. since I was small,” Noé Herrera from Mexicali explains. With family and...

“Time to Dare”: It’s Time to Dare, It’s Time to Give

On 21 and 22 January, Caserta will be hosting “Time to Dare”, a hackathon and forum to digitally spread the culture of giving. Daring and giving, it all comes from this: from the wish to boost the mechanism of support...

An MD on the ward

BY ARTHUR NGOY. The choice made by Dr. Arthur Ngoy, a gynaecologist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and his “normal” life on the hospital ward. My name is Arthur Ngoy. I am the Chief Medical Officer of Moyi...

20 years of Together for Europe

By Conleth Burns. Christian Churches and Movements unite to be ‘Together4Europe’ Earlier last month, I had the chance to travel to Ottmaring and Augsburg in Southern Germany to attend a 3-day meeting of a network of Christian Churches and Movements...

Young peace-builders are growing… in Madrid

Organized by Living Peace International, in collaboration with the Igino Giordani Foundation and Universal Circle of Ambassadors of Peace, the international congress “Con Pax: growing as Builders of Peace” will take place in Madrid from 13 to 15 December 2019....

She had the biggest grin the entire time

By Joanna Saikali. From farmer’s market to meals for those in need This past June, I was able to attend “United World Week 2019: No One In Need.” While the event itself was spectacular, the biggest question is always, “How...

The Comiso dialogue

By Carmela Lo Monaco. Engaging citizens in local politics. Comiso is a small and graceful Italian town in the Ragusa province of South East Sicily. Among its 30,000 inhabitants, a group of friends belonging to different ecclesial movements discovered they...

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