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01.10.2019

At the border of hope

By Maddalena Maltese. McAllen and Brownsville, border towns where “Bienvenidos” is the answer to the detention and forced family separation of the migrants. Carmen and Juan are not aware of being among the last families to cross the border with...

28.09.2019

Rohingya, Kachin, Karen… to name but a few

by George Ritinsky. On the occasion of the 105th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which is celebrated on Sunday 29 September 2019, we have decided to look at the phenomenon of migration globally. The first analysis comes from Asia....

23.09.2019

The Ballarò Campus: looking at the city with new eyes

In Ballarò, a historic district in the heart of Palermo, forty young people from all over the region have gathered for the second edition of the social and intercultural Campus entitled Guardo la mia città (I look at my city),...

20.09.2019

A school for “United Word Ambassadors”

The first school for “Ambassadors of a United Word” was held from 2nd to 7th September at Arny Mariapolis Center, 35 km south of Paris, France, attended by 16 young people selected from 15 different countries. The program was promoted...

14.09.2019

Pope Francis: a global pact for education

On May 14, 2020, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, invites the representatives of major religions, international organizations, and various humanitarian institutions in the academic, economic, political, and cultural sectors to subscribe an alliance to rebuild the global educational pact and...

10.09.2019

The 10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace

By Roberto Catalano. Lindau welcomes 900 religious leaders The island of Lindau recently hosted the 10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace. The title of the event was symptomatic: “Caring for our Common Future: Advancing Shared Well-Being”. Caring for the...

02.09.2019

Young people of South Sudan for peace

BY JAMES MWANIA- PAOLO BALDUZZI. The training for leadership of the young people of South Sudan continues in the context of the Project “Together fo a New Africa”. In 2011, South Sudan became the youngest State in the world and...

29.08.2019

Italy: Focolare young people welcome a Buddhist delegation from the Rissho Kosei-kai

By Paola Pepe. The most recent event for dialogue between the youth of Buddhist movement Rissho Kosei-kai and young people from the Focolare deepened their awareness, friendship and common commitment for world peace. “All these years, wherever we’ve met, immediately...

26.08.2019

Camas, so much more than just a library

By Cristobal Guerrero Guedel. We received this letter from Cristobal Guerrero, a Spaniard, with his testimony of brotherhood in the city. My name is Cristobal, I was born in the South of Spain, in Arcos de la Frontera (Cádiz). When...

19.08.2019

Progress report on Fraternity

By Stefania Tanesini. Roberto Catalano of the Focolare Movement’s Centre for Interreligious Dialogue offered his insights into the context and geopolitical events leading to the drawing up of the historic Document on “Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living together”,...

12.08.2019

Algeria: to educate is to make the world a better place

By Claudia Di Lorenzi. Amine Mohammed Sahnouni, a young Algerian sociologist, sees education as a process. “We need to give the children more responsibility, trust in them and guide them so that their leadership abilities develop from an early age.”...

05.08.2019

A school for United World Ambassadors

The program will take place at the French Mariapolis Center of Arny, 35 km South of Paris. The aim is enhancing the skills of an international group of 20 young people, most of them change-makers, peace-builders, and community leaders, training...

29.07.2019

A world in colors

By Letizia Spano. From July 7 to 22, a summer school took place in Loppiano, the international town of the Focolare Movement in Italy, for young people who wish to commit themselves to build a united world. Its red thread...

22.07.2019

Where giving is receiving

A trip to the Café con Leche School in the Dominican Republic Fifteen young people from Texas made a trip to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to teach English at a school founded by Focolare member Marisol Jimenez in a poor...

15.07.2019

The Economy of Francesco

He wants mostly young people to be there, but not only them. Pope Francis convened a major meeting on economic issues in Assisi for 2020. Pope Francis invited young people, entrepreneurs, and economists to Assisi, next year, to promote together...

08.07.2019 United World Week

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...

04.07.2019

Trump crosses the threshold

By George Ritinsky. First US president to cross the border of the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, still formally at war. An historic moment that gives hope. The Russian magazine rt.com aired two interesting videos of the historic meeting...

01.07.2019

Paglaum, a name that means “hope”

Cinema, a group of Filipino teenagers, and their ability to tell stories that give hope. In the summer of 2016, on the island of Cebu, archipelago of the Philippines, the Fondazione Bukas Palad di Cebu (BPCFI) organized the first audiovisual...

28.06.2019

Chile: a Green Desert against Poisons

By Alberto Barlocci. In the middle of Atacama, the driest region in the world, a researcher has achieved a twofold positive effect: the creation of a green area that absorbs the emissions from a mining industry and the development of...

24.06.2019

Kenya: Refugees seeing the future

By Stefania Tanesini. Insights from Congolese journalist Liliane Mugombozi, currently based in the Focolare centre in Nairobi. She works at the Jesuit Refugee Service in the Kenyan capital: “African migrants? The majority are not going to Europe but are moving...