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Arabs in Italy to celebrate Eid with talk on Pope

COMAI-sponsored debate on Francis October 19 in Rome (ANSA) - Rome - The Association of Arab Communities in Italy (COMAI) will celebrate this year's Eid al-Adha, or the Muslim Feast of the Sacrifice, with a debate in Rome on mutual...

Learning Fraternity

A Decalogue for a Fraternal Education

Ten rules launched at the end of the Meeting "Learning Faternity" in Castelgandolfo During the conference-workshop about Education and Fraternity wich took place last mounth ( Castelgandolfo 6-8 September) the Project of Learning Fraternity continues with lot's of enthusiasm with the...

Peace Train

Peace train 2013

It will start in Berlin and will go through Moscow, Irkutsk, Beijing, Pyongyang, Seoul and Busan. A journey towards reunification of Koreas A Peace Train has recently started its journey from Berlin, Germany through Russia and China to northeast Asia and...

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“The Flowery Path”: Living With Alzheimer’s

A book written by a South Korean poet and nurse receives award from Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare. A story of fraternity “My mother, in her eighties, has begun to make steps on the flowery path: gradually she no longer...

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Nobel Peace Prize to OPCW

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons awarded Prize amid Syria conflict OSLO—The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons." The award, given in...

Nepal educazione

Nepal plans to eliminate illiteracy

The Nepalese government has launched an ambitious new programme which aims to eradicate illiteracy in the country by 2015 The Literate Nepal Mission aims to ensure 1.38 million Nepalese people learn to read and write every year for three years,...

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Pope tells faithful to embrace diversity

Likens Christianity to a symphony with different instruments (ANSA) - Vatican City, October 9 - Pope Francis on Wednesday called on the faithful to embrace diversity within Christianity at a general audience in which he spoke on the meaning of...

And if there were hundreds of Nobel Peace Prizes…

An unprecedented high number of names being put forward this year. The highly prestigious Nobel Prize for Peace is seeing an unprecedented high number of names being put forward this year. There are more than 250 candidates. The list is...

Putting people first in medicine

The medical director of a clinic in Italy shares what touches her most when treating patients. During 18-19 October, in Padua, health professionals will gather together in a conference to share reflections and projects on patient-centred care. “I was standing...

Honesty, an added-on value

The continuing economic crisis can lead to dishonest shortcuts, an experience that goes against this current. Around two years ago, in a timespan of about three months, my teeth began to deteriorate in a dramatic way. So I went to...

Posta dellamicizia

World of Education: The Friendship Mail

An original and simple idea from an assistant teacher helps to melt tensions in classrooms of small children. The teacher recounts: “I work in an elementary school as an assistant teacher. There is a boy in my classroom who wears...

Fashion Desiner

Damascus: the experience of a fashion designer

The experience of Rahmé confirms that in the name of brotherhood, any barrier can be torn down, even at the cost of serious risks. «After my studies of fashion design I worked for several years in the clothing sector. Providence...

Not violent, never passive

The International Day of Non-Violence is marked on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence. According to General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/271 of 15 June 2007,...

Traffico uomini

IOM welcomes signing of anti-trafficking bill into law in South Africa

Almost a month after its adoption, we want to give relief to this important legislation 6 August 2013 - IOM South Africa has welcomed the signing into law of the long-awaited Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Bill by...

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All it took was a bag of chips

Sharing is an act of fraternity. A story from Texas Beginning my first semester in a community college, I found that everyone was extremely individualistic. Little to no communication happened between students, and what was said was not always nice....

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IPCC climate report – your questions answered

The 27th of September the fifth UN assessment report on the state of climate science. All you need to know from www.theguardian.com What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? Set up in 1988, the IPCC is a UN body...

Livio-Bertola

Live fraternity in and out the factory

Bertola srl, a story through the eyes of an entrepreneur from Piedmont... Livio Bertola is the owner of an engineering company, which employs thirty workers in Marene, in the province of Cuneo, in northern Italy. In 1995, Livio met the...

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Óscar Arias Sánchez adheres to United World Project

On September 21, 2013 in Rome, Italy, Youth for a United World meet 1987 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and ex-president of Costa Rica, Óscar Arias Sánchez who adheres to the United World Project. Shared commitment to peace. This triggered an...

Rifugiati

Pope’s Message for World Day of Migrants and Refugees

How migration is an invitation to imagine a different future, in which we glimpse the creation of a 'better world' Vatican City, September 24, 2013 (Zenit.org) - The president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and...

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Mamma, are we poor?

A chain of events in a virtuous circle of giving and receiving Like many families they were having economic problems. Back wages and finally layoffs at work. With three young children the future seemed threatening. What were they to do?...

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