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10.03.2016

Event Registration 2016

United World Week 2016 QUITO-Ecuador, 29 april – 7 may 2016 LINK-CULTURES un camino para la paz Event Registration 2016...

10.03.2016

History of the Week for a United World

A proposal to the youth of the whole world, to national and international, public and private institutions, to highlight and enhance the initiatives that promote unity at all levels. Days punctuated by the most various activities to influence public opinion...

03.03.2016

Central African Republic: Rebuilding peace and hope

Reconciliation and recovery are the huge tasks facing the Central African Republic’s new President Faustin-Archange Touadera, named the winner of a run-off election that it is hoped will turn the page on years of violent turmoil. Former prime minister Touadera...

01.03.2016

Refugees on my mountain bike

In the face of the controversial attitudes towards the numerous refugees arriving in Europe, the welcoming gesture of an Italian clerk who offered what he had to make friends, as the Word of Life invites us to do in the...

27.02.2016

Training ourselves to train others

A profession chosen out of love: 400 workers in the field of education and youth, from 39 countries, united by their dedication to the new generations. A difficult task? Yes, but possible when we do it together. There was overwhelming...

25.02.2016

An important Europen council

News from the last European council... Agenda highlightsThe European Council focus on two main issues: United Kingdom Following the discussion at the December 2015 European Council on the UK plans for an (in/out) referendum, the European Council agreed to find...

23.02.2016

Paraguay: the long spring of the students

The last months of 2015 will go down in the history of Paraguay as the epoch in which the youth revived its leading and ongoing role in civic actions. The story of the Focolare youth’s commitment. Thousands of university students...

20.02.2016

Restoring Dignity at a Roman Prison

During the Year of Mercy, the commitment of a focolarino and 30 volunteers from the Sempre Persona (Always a Person) project at the Rebibbia Prison on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. It all began with a request for forgiveness. “I...

18.02.2016

Malta: the challenge taken and won by “The Voice”

A visit to “the Voice School of English” in Malta: one of the very first EoC businesses distinguishes itself by giving priority to the relationship with students Coming down from the bus we immediately spot ““The Voice School of English”,...

16.02.2016

Major powers agree on truce in Syria “within a week”

With the US and Russia leading the way the international partners along with the Syrians and groups opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, meeting in Munich, have announced a cessation of hostilities in Syria within a week, the first in five...

11.02.2016

Geneva talks: Word is waiting for peace

On the eve of scheduled intra-Syrian talks in Geneva to seek an end to five years of internecine fighting, the top United Nations official for the war-torn country took to the airwaves today to speak directly to the Syrian people,...

09.02.2016

India: Santacruz and Udisha Projects in Mumbai

The Focolare Movement in Mumbai has been reaching out to its local communities for over two decades, inspiring hope and change in the lives of underprivileged families, especially children and youth. “One can either walk away from the problems in...

06.02.2016

Mexico: Bringing social change and mobility through wheelchair project

The common perception of the physically disabled throughout Mexico was that they are incapable of being productive members of society. Unable to work or provide for their families, they face discrimination, must be taken care of, and are kept at...

04.02.2016

Economics, health and happiness: what do scholars say?

In Lugano, a conference entitled “Economics, Health and Happiness” organized by Supsi, Heirs and the Swiss School of Public Health. We talk about it with Luca Crivelli, director of the Department for Corporate, Health and Social Economics of SUPSI. An...

02.02.2016

Teramo (Italy): Muslims and Christians in dialogue

We can become creators of dialogue by instilling trust instead of fear and love instead of distrust. This is what the Focolare community of Teramo (Italy) has been able to do through contacts with a very special person: the Imam...

30.01.2016

Hungary: “Open Square” Festival

A project shared by various Christian churches turned into a great civic event. There were various activities in the stands in terms of volunteer work, health, education, associations and community, employment and science. The festival took place in the park...

28.01.2016

UN Security Council approves mission to monitor peace deal between Colombia and FARC

The Security Council today moved to set up a United Nations political mission in Colombia, approving a team of international observers to monitor disarmament should the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) reach a final...

26.01.2016

Argentina: Misael and his dream of peace

The initiative of a 10-year old student in one of the largest schools of Salta (Argentina). With the support of his teacher, he instituted an ecumenical prayer for peace celebration. “I teach in a Catholic school in my city, Salta,...

23.01.2016

Saudi-Iran tensions will not hamper efforts to resolve Syria conflict – UN special envoy

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, concluded today his regional consultations with meetings in Tehran, where he received assurances from his interlocutors that regional current tensions would not affect Iran's engagement in facilitating the holding of...

21.01.2016

India: Sarvodaya, the dream of Bala Shanti

Sarvodaya, meaning Universal Uplift or Progress of All, expresses Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of future human society.We present the Bala Shanti Project in Coimbatore on the 25th anniversary of its establishment. “A society is good when the last and smallest member...