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Human rights and fraternity: an ever-timely commitment

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. This date was not chosen randomly: on this day in 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We talked about this anniversary with Esther Salamanca and...

Thank you Milonga, thank you volunteers of the world!

By Janeth Cárdenas Every year, millions of people volunteer throughout the whole world. The 5th of December is dedicated to them, proclaimed by the United Nations as “International Volunteer Day”. To celebrate, let’s discover the international volunteering project of “Milonga”,...

“One Hundred Assisi”: not only a number, the revolution of encounter

Facundo, the young Argentinean who tries to bring the spirit of encounter and fraternity in more than 100 places in Argentina, to build relations that will give a soul to the economy. “Mate, the Pope drinks mate. Mate, the Pope...

Coming together to live for peace

From the 1st to the 4th of December, the international congress of Living Peace International, an educational path that aims to make the commitment to living peace and for peace grow in different learning and living environments will be held...

From the streets’ hell to Avodah’s home

Keenan Fitzpatrick (31 years) co-founded Avodah, a non-profit that offers a future to the vulnerable women and children who know only the brutality of violence. (From New York) “God, lead me to places where no one else will go”. Every...

Solidarity bricks: defending the right to housing

In collaboration with Gen4 International Centre Pitalito, Columbia: a mother and her four children live in a shack built from plastic sheets. A group of children along with their parents and the community decides to help them build, brick after...

Elections, social network and the ability to interact with who thinks differently

In times of algorithms, heated spirits and (symbolic and physical) political violence, is it still possible to promote spaces of dialogue and reflections on social network? This article comes from a personal experience. I returned in Brazil, my native country,...

Virginio, Sisa and their “home”

It is a simple story, the one narrated in the movie “Utama – The forgotten lands”, and yet filled with significance: it is the story of Virginio and Sisa, two Quechua farmers of the Bolivian highlands, through whom we can...

Fall of the Berlin Wall. Thomas’ point of view

On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Or rather, it did not fall, but more precisely it was dismantled, changing the fate of the world forever. What significance did that event have in a view of history that places...

United World Week 2022 | Podcast | Episode #5

Petra from Hungary and David from the USA host the United World Week Podcast. The latest episode of the podcast. We’ll be taking stock of the latest events taking place around the world, most notably on 7 May with the...

Dancing, for harmony amongst the people

Antonella Lombardo, artistic director of the high formation Academic Dance Workshop school, of the Cultural Association DanceLab Armoni, narrates of the effort for peace and dialogue amongst the people in Italy and the Holy Land, born from the experience of...

Directors of their own story: the favelas (slum area) seen from the inside

The journey of the Pensar Cultural (Think culturally) group, that, through some audiovisual production workshops, offers the youth of the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) the possibility to narrate their own stories. They are the roads without a name...

Teens International: an international editorial board made up of teenagers

A look at the world with the aim of spreading “good news”. This is what animates the Teens International editorial offices scattered in various parts of the world and supported by the Città Nuova publishing group. A space created by...

United World Week 2022 | Podcast | Episode #4

Petra from Hungary and David from the USA host the United World Week Podcast. In today’s episode, we focus on taking care of the environment through small acts, but also taking care of our mental health. We go to Brazil,...

Economy of Francesco: young people for a new economy

More than 1000 young people from all over the world met in Assisi (Italy). Their aim: to redesign the economy together, giving it a soul, making it more sustainable, inclusive and attentive to the least. Pope Francis met them and...

Doorbell, a short film based on the theme domestic violence acts witnessed by children

Manuel Macadamia, a young Milanese director, narrates the trauma caused due to the violence witnessed by minors. He does so through a short animation, in collaboration with a group of psychologists. «Witnessed violence, the one that a child sees, even...

Unipar School, Paraguay. A red-land world to share

By Martina Fantini International volunteering with AFN. The experience of Martina, Italian. In this way as well, we build a united world! I am Martina, I am 36 years old and have just returned to Italy after an experience of...

The great jouney of Pope Francis

The apostolic missions of Pope Francis narrated in a touching documentary by Gianfranco Rosi: On a journey”, presented at the Cinema exhibition of Venice and in the theatres of Italy, from the 4th of October of last year. The words,...

Floods in Pakistan: networking for concrete action

By Maria Grazia Berretta An exceptional wave of monsoon rains, five times greater than average, has caused one of the most disastrous floods in Pakistan in recent decades. A real catastrophe but one which, despite the enormous difficulties, has not dampened...

Pope Francis signs the “pact” with the youth: “a new economy is not utopia”

By Lucia Capuzzi On the 24th of September 2022, Pope Francis went to Assisi to meet the young economists, entrepreneurs and changemakers of the Economy of Francesco coming from over 100 countries of the world for the third edition of...

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