Stories from around the globe show how a united world is already in motion. This platform highlights experiences, initiatives, and projects from people and communities working for unity and peace. Explore what’s happening and get inspired.
<p><em><span id="result_box" lang="it"><span title="August 25th-30th 2015 "></span><span title="Palazzo Scopoli, Tonadico (Trent, Italy) ">Religions in the Global World<br />August 25th-30th 2015</span></span></em></p> <p><span lang="it"><span title="Palazzo Scopoli, Tonadico (Trent, Italy) "><span id="result_box" lang="it"><span title="Religions are having a strong impact on the international scene, continuing to influence heavily cultures, societies and the broader academic and public debate worldwide."></span><span title="of the positive function that religions can actually play. ">Religions are having a strong impact on the international scene, continuing to influence heavily cultures, societies and the broader academic and public debate worldwide. Understanding the role of religions in the global world has to be conceived not merely in terms of political instability, social disorder, or as a de-facto analysis of a pluralistic environment, but also as an historical fact that opens a space for a better understanding of the positive function that religions can actually play.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><em>Like every year, in early May the Youth for a United World all over the world have made a lot of activities and initiatives within the United World Week. Below you find some other fragments (and others at this <a href="en/home/10-news/767-some-fragments-from-the-united-world-week-2015-all-over-the-world.html">link</a>).<br /></em></p> <p><em></em><strong></strong><strong>Lebanon. </strong>A collection of food packages and then going to distribute them to the homeless people on the streets. All this trying to invite friends to join and trying to do it with a big smile, to bring more than just food. Photos and other infos <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1420740168243955/">here</a>.</p> <p><strong>Yogyakarta, Indonesia. </strong>"Games4Peace": more than 80 participants, some young people from the nearby parish and from the focolare of Yogyakarta, friends, classmates, etc. spent together a beautiful sunny Sunday morning, playing, running, learning, building friendships and above all testifying the universal brotherhood.
<p><em>The 3rd Christians Amongst Muslims Day is held on May 29, 2015, at the Doha Centre for Dialogue and Culture: “Isa bin Marjam/Jesus Christ – Brother of each one of us.” Focolare president and co-president, Maria Voce and Jesús Morán were also amongst the invited guests.</em></p> <p><strong></strong><strong>In Poland, with its population of 38 million, 90% of whom are Christian, the Muslims are a religious minority. </strong>They number 25 thousand, 0.08% of the population. Their presence presence back to the Tartars of the 14th century; then there was the immigration of the second half of the 20th century and the years after the Berlin wall. The recent day of dialogue is inserted amongst three major events in the ongoing dialogue amongst Christians and Muslims in Poland.
<p><em>"He needs something on his head because he's bleeding. That's my job - to help. And I think anyone else would have done the same as me."</em></p> <p>New Zealand Sikh man is being hailed a hero after removing his turban to help a child who had been hit by a car. <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11449538" target="_hplink">Harman Singh heard screeching wheels</a> near his home in Auckland and ran outside to find that Daejon Pahia had been hit by a car, according to The New Zealand Herald.</p> <p>"I saw a child down on the ground and a lady was holding him. His head was bleeding, so I unveiled my turban and put it under his head," the 22-year-old said. "I wasn't thinking about the turban. I was thinking about the accident and I just thought, 'He needs something on his head because he's bleeding.' That's my job - to help. And I think anyone else would have done the same as me."</p>
<p><em>Like every year, in early May the Youth for a United World all over the world have made a lot of activities and initiatives within the United World Week. Below you find some fragments:<br /></em></p> <p><strong>Chaco, Argentina.</strong> "Change the face". In the main square, the activity had the young people in a leaing role, thay participated with different games. The idea was to promote the smile, realizing that it's the first individual action that you can do for peace. Also they made a collective mural, and took pictures with the tag "I work for peace". They finally talked to the youth of Washington, in the United States, to pass them the baton.</p> <p><strong>Curitiba, Brazil.</strong> In the activities the imprint was the relationship between young people and adolescents:
<p><em>The first international and pan-African EoC school is underway: involving the dynamism of a young population with high aspirations and dreams amid the great challenges facing the continent.</em></p> <p><strong></strong><strong>«We are a new generation that wants to take the helm of </strong>the <a href="http://www.edc-online.org">Ec</a><a href="http://www.edc-online.org" target="_blank">onomy of Communion. </a>We are well aware of our inexperience and immaturity but we are also glad to feel that this is precisely our strong point, and we do not want to stop dreaming.» Liliane Mugombozi, a journalist in Kenya, picked up the voice of a young Cameroonese among the participants of the international Economy of Communion (EoC) school, underway from 22 to 26 May at Mariapolis Piero, the Focolare town close to Nairobi, Kenya.</p>
<p><em>Udisha is a Sanskrit word which indicates the “first rays of the sun” and symbolizes the hope we want to give to the children of our project (<a href="http://www.umanitanuova.org/en/pdf/italiano/223-udisha-2015.html">see the PPT</a>).<br /></em></p> <p><strong><strong></strong></strong>Mumbai, called Bombay till a few years ago, is a megalopolis with a population of over 14 million. It’s India’s commercial capital generating 5% of the country’s GDP, 25% of the industrial production, and 70% of capital transactions of the Indian economy.</p> <p>Its population has significantly increased and the worrying fact is that the numbers of people who live in the poorer quarters have increased by an alarming 50% within a decade.<strong> The numbers of people who live in the slums and shantytowns have incredibly increased by 3 million.</strong></p>
<p><em>Providing school meals, improving health and nutritional awareness<br /></em></p> <p>The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), in collaboration with the Royal Health Awareness Society and the Ministry of Education, has started a pilot project to provide school meals to around 2,300 students in 10 public schools in Madaba governorate in central Jordan.</p>
<p><em>1300 students and professors of Egyptian schools and universities witness their commitment to peace</em></p> <p>“The Peace Forum was a unique experience. I enjoyed every moment of the programme. Such a meeting (. . .) makes one hope that better days are coming and that one day poverty, hunger discrimination and violence will see their end.”</p> <p>This is how Rasha, an English teacher at Rowad American College, describes <a href="http://living-peace.blogspot.it/p/italiano.html">Living Peace 2015</a> which was held in Cairo on May 4-6, 2015, following a three-day congress in Alexandria, Egypt that provided the young people with the necessary background knowledge.</p>
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