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13.02.2019

A climate strike

By Lorenzo Russo. “FridayforFuture” – thousands of students and citizens respond to Greta Thunberg’s appeal. The movement is growing and it is preparing for the global march of March 15. Greta Thunberg is a 16-years-old Swedish girl who has become...

11.02.2019

A Page in History in Abu Dhabi

By Roberto Catalano. Pope Francis: demilitarize our hearts to enter together into the ark of fraternity. The strategy of dialogue. The document signed by the Holy Father and Ahmad Al-Tayyib, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar. «I am happy the Lord has...

07.02.2019

Pathways: The “End Poverty Week”

Pathways for a United World: the Youth for a United World to launch a week of actions to eradicate poverty. February 17 through 23, as part of the “Pathways of Economy, Work and Communion”, the Youth for a United World...

05.02.2019

Ports Closed to Arms, the Assisi Motion brought to Rome

By Carlo Cefaloni. Presented in Rome the reasons for the public discussion on the shipment of Italian weapons to the Middle East for the war in Yemen. “Let’s close the ports to bombs and open them to people“. Why are...

29.01.2019

A pact for a new style of governance for cities begins

The conference “Co-Governance, co-responsibility in cities today” ended with a document putting forward to both citizens and public administrators the practice of participation and networking among citizens, stakeholders and cities. “Politics is the love of loves that brings together the...

28.01.2019

Pathways for a United World, first phase: Learning with the “EoC” training course

‘Pathways for a United World’ is a path proposed by the Youth for a United World, to live and implement the United World Project. How? By working every year on a different aspect of human life – economy, politics, justice,...

25.01.2019

Gen Verde at WYD

These days, the international band Gen Verde is in the Republic of Panama, to participate in the Youth Festival of World Youth Day 2019, and hold “Start Now” workshops, to spread the culture of fraternity, in the cities of Colón...

24.01.2019

From Bosnia to Haiti, to tell the stories of the last

Marta Carino is a young Italian filmmaker who, camera in hand, together with her colleague Luca Bonaventura, has found her way to build a more united world: telling the stories of the last, the forgotten stories that nobody wants to...

21.01.2019

Pathways for a United World: the “Pro Bono” Project

Fernanda Oria, from Brazil, reports about the “Pro Bono Recife” Project, created in August 2016 by a group of lawyers, with the aim of promoting the culture of free patronage (“Pro Bono”) to the benefit of the poor in the...

21.01.2019

Prima Luce: fabrics and colours for a united world

‘Brighten up your life’, says the message that greets visitors to Kyoko Yoshida’s website. The young Japanese stylist is the creator of Prima Luce (i.e. ‘First Light’ in Italian), a small business selling handmade scarves that catch the eye with...

17.01.2019

“Together for a new Africa”: the first course in Nairobi

By James Mwania. The first leaders for peace and unity in Africa training on the project “Together for a New Africa” for young African leaders bringing together 105 participants from East and central Africa has just ended in Nairobi with...

15.01.2019

Beyond competition

The impact of the Sports4Peace program in conflict-ridden East Africa By Marie Florence Bamvuginyumvira. The word peace is often on everyone’s lips, a state that most of us long for. According to the dictionary, it means “a state of tranquility,...

10.01.2019

Co-governance: mutual responsability in cities today

400 administrators, citizens, economists, experts and professionals from all over the world will meet at Castel Gandolfo, Rome, from 17 to 20 January 2019 for four days of discussion and study on urban management, networking and models of sustainability and...

08.01.2019

Margherita’s dream

«When I explain my job, most of the time, people are amazed. Indeed, until about six years ago, I myself was unaware that there could still be such a profession…», says Margherita, 26, who grew up between Italy and Germany....

07.01.2019

A 620 km-long human chain

By Ravindra Chheda. A huge rally against religious fundamentalism in the State of Kerala promoted by the Left Democratic Front. On the other hand, Modi’s federal government supports the traditionalist sectors that hinder the application of a ruling by the...

02.01.2019

Good politics is at the service of peace: read the message of Pope Francis for the celebration of the 52nd World Day of Peace

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE 52nd WORLD DAY OF PEACE 1 JANUARY 2019 Good politics is at the service of peace 1. “Peace be to this house!” In sending his disciples forth on...

29.12.2018

Above all, they are our brothers and sisters

By Susanne Janssen (Living City Magazine) The Kino Border Initiative takes care of people who were rejected at the Mexican border or deported Nogales, Sonora, a Mexican city directly on the border with Arizona, is both a place of hope...

24.12.2018

It’s Christmas!

[…] Let’s look around us… Our love should reach everyone, but especially those who are suffering and those most in need, all those who are alone, poor, small or ill…. May our communion of goods and love with them make...

21.12.2018

With the homeless people of Santa Maria Novella

For about a year, every first Friday of the month, the young people of the Focolare Movement of Florence have been meeting to prepare a simple meal and hot drinks for the homeless people of the Santa Maria Novella railway...

18.12.2018

My life is not worth more than another person’s life

Giulia’s story with “Operazione Colomba” , Nonviolent Peace Corps of the Pope John XXIII Community. I am writing from a cardboard and nylon tent, in the refugee camp of Tel Abbas, Lebanon, just three kilometers away from the Syrian border. Here,...