A desire for dialogue, peace and justice from different parts of the world.

Our November newsletter reminds us that the trust in dialogue—understood as a tool for human growth—runs across the entire world. The stories gathered this month come from different corners of the planet: from Brazil, from Africa, from Palestine, from many Mediterranean ports and from one of Rome’s most challenging suburbs: Corviale. A precious thread links these stories, woven from dialogue between cultures and religions, and from hope and trust in peace and justice. A hope and trust that grow through concrete actions.

From São Paulo, Brazil, comes an experience lived in September 2025 at the Ginetta Mariapolis with a three-day school built around the following theme: “Unity of God and Unity in God: a journey of encounter and listening.” The event brought together different faiths and cultures, reaffirming a powerful message of hope—namely, that “only dialogue can transform the world into a common home”.

The meeting was born, as the article explains, from the earlier experience during the 2024 Genfest, where the Community for Dialogue and Interculture strengthened in the youth an awareness of how precious an authentic encounter with others can be. As well as – and especially – with those who profess a different faith. From the atmosphere of trust and friendship that emerged during the Genfest in São Paulo arose the desire to continue along this path through the Youth Interreligious Dialogue School.

A powerful experience of dialogue and peace was the journey of the ship 25med Bel Espoir up and down the Mediterranean: thirty ports, around 200 youth from different countries, many cities visited and countless extraordinary moments. It was a sea of emotions and reflections that we tried to summarize in the final article dedicated to the precious journey of the 25Med Bel Espoir, in which we also included several testimonies, among them that of Carlos Palma, founder of Living Peace.

To complete the account of the journey of the 25Med Bel Espoir, we gathered the testimony of Majdi Abdallah, a young Palestinian who personally took part in the experience last August. In the interview we conducted with him, he tells us his story.

From Nairobi, Kenya, more precisely from the Piero Mariapolis, just outside the city come two stories of peace, a longing for justice and for social growth: The first concerns a Summer School organized as part of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the United Nations and a project presented by Together for a New Africa (T4NA), aimed at strengthening communities and empowering young leaders across the continent to build a fairer, more democratic Africa—one capable of overcoming its challenges and fostering sustainable peace.

Alway at the Piero Mariapolis in Nairobi, in the heart of an Africa with 54 rapidly growing nations and a population of which about 70% is under the age of 30, the closing event of the international conference “Cities, Communities, Care. Youth in Action for Sustaining Peace’ took place, culminating in the approval of the ‘Charter of Commitments Nairobi 2025”. Our article offers a closer look.

From Rome, from the outskirts of Corviale, comes a story that speaks of hope, justice and legality through the lens of football: a sport as beautiful and popular as it is often threatened by forces that corrupt it. Massimo Vallati lives football in a truly revolutionary way that exactly in Corviale, one of the Italian capital’s toughest neighborhoods, he conceived and founded Calciosociale, a project rooted in inclusion and in reclaiming urban spaces once controlled by criminal activity. In the interview he granted us, Vallati shares this remarkable story, which has been unfolding for twenty years.