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United World Week in Argentina

Various activities will be carried out in Argentina. The most popular one is an interreligious march for peace on May 6 at the Puente de la Mujer, in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires. Argentina is a country characterized by both ethnic...

#Beyondme Special Report: Simone the Shark

At Genfest Italia, in the open-air amphitheater of the international town of Loppiano, journalist and writer Riccardo Barlaam tells the story of Simone “the shark” who, just like Nemo, was brave enough to spread his tiny fin and learned how...

Special #BeyondMe, the experience of the Loppiano Gen School

What is the Loppiano Gen school? The story is shared by Nicole (Italy), Susanna (Korea), Maria (Spain), and Maria (Mexico) during the Genfest Italy, entitled “Beyond Me”. NICOLE (Italy): Hi everyone! I’m Nicole, I’m 19 and I came here to...

Italy, Special #CALLTOGENFEST: Samuele’s experience in Mexico, thanks to the Milonga Project

From the #calltogenfest stage, Samuele shares his experience as an international volunteer in Mexico, where he arrived thanks to the Milonga Project, a new international, “fraternal”, intercultural, and quality Volunteering Platform. Its target are young people from 21 to 35...

Italy, Special #CALLTOGENFEST: Luana’s experience

Luana Gravina is 30 years old and she is from Enna, Sicily. Last September she participated in the eleventh Youth World Peace Forum. In her contribution to #calltogenfest, the awareness that peace begins with everyone’s commitment. «From September 16 to...

#Calltogenfest Special: The experience of the Dancelab Armonia Association

The experience of the Dancelab Armonia Association, with the dancers that we will see on May 1 on the stage of the Italian Genfest #Beyondme. The Dancelab Armonia Association was born more than 10 years ago from a dream. Antonella...

The battle for clean water

What does it mean to build a fraternal city when it implies injustice, polluted water and health risks for their children? “No PFAS” mothers shared. One mother is enough to make a revolution. But if you put some more mothers...

United Word Contest – the workshop

The first part of the United World Contest is over. 24 Youth for a United World have been selected: coming from all continents, they are ready to begin the training course that will transform them into ambassadors of the united...

Lalela: the art of building the future

What’s the spark that ignites change? For Lalela, a South African NGO, it is art and creativity. In the townships of Cape Town, where children and young people grow up in at-risk environments, offering them a way out of the...

A United World: History in the making

Chiara Lubich’s speech at Sports Arena (Rome), March 31, 1990: to bring love back into the world «Let us take a look at several symptomatic scenes of today’s world. We observe in Eastern Europe, in the nations which have recently experienced...

The “different” holidays in El Espinal

From 8th to 16th January, during the austral summer, a group of 25 people went back on holiday to El Espinal, a town located between Salta and San Miguel de Tucumán, in the north-west of Argentina. Let’s hear the story...

Greening Africa Together Network

Reforestation, renewable energy, waste management, environmental education. Four keywords for a project that creates a network of the best forces for the African continent, and not only, with a view to universal fraternity. Mal d’Afrique is the so-called nostalgic feeling...

The Art of Loving and a United World

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death of Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement, we publish below the text of one of her speeches,”The art of loving and the united world,” that was read, in January...

Plastic Bags Ban Applauded In Kenya

Many Kenyans have continued to applaud the move by the government to ban plastic bags used for commercial and household packaging terming it as a great move to curb the plastic bag menace. In August 2017, the Kenyan government banned...

Art and the Ideal of the United World: Two Inseparable Pillars

Latin American artists of different ages and disciplines gathered in Uruguay to pursue a path that aims to deepen the Latin American identity and the ability to interconnect the art and the ideal of the united world in an intrinsic...

From the global to universal

oday’s article is a piece by Pasquale Ferrara, who is currently the Italian Ambassador to Algeria. It was first published in the Atlas of Universal fraternity, the first edition of the United World Project file (2014), and it provides an...

Crunelab, the “Made in Italy” by African hands

Crunelab is not only a solidarity tailor workshop, but a point of meeting and a real multi-cultural workshop to improve one’s knowledge, talents, and cultural approaches. There is a bit of Africa concentrated right in the heart of Tuscany, in...

On migrants… the union makes an effort

Seven political proposals for a new “agenda”. Citizenship law reform, new ways to enter Italy, legal status for “rooted” foreigners on an individual basis, repeal of illegal immigration status, extension of the Sprar network (Sytem of Protection of Asylum Seekers...

An environmental engineer for a united world

Amanda Casimiro has dark, curly hair framing a smiling, open, and sweet face. After having texted each other for a while via email, today, thanks to Skype, I can finally associate a face to her email address. «These days I...

Music knows no borders

We caught up with Nancy Uelmen, composer, singer and keyboardist in the all-female international performing arts group Gen Verde. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, for the past twenty-five years Nancy Uelmen has been living and working in the...

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