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>The account of a young communicator in face of the tragic events that struck the country</em></p> <p><strong></strong><strong>«The country is undergoing a very difficult period. </strong>In fact a police contingent sent to arrest some terrorist suspects, was attacked by the fighters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and 44 policemen were killed. The Parliament was just deliberating on the new peace treaty between the government and Muslims of Mindanao, with extensive grants in many fields.</p>
<p><em><span id="result_box" lang="it">The Vaccine Alliance on the path to immunise a further 300 million children and save up to 6 million more lives</span></em></p> <p>Hundreds of millions of children living in the world’s poorest countries will receive life-saving vaccines as a result of record-breaking financial commitments made on 17th January at the Gavi Pledging Conference, hosted in Berlin by German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel.</p>
<p><em>That was the theme of this year’s “Regenerate,” an annual event of the young people of the Focolare Movement from Ireland and Great Britain. Following recent events in Paris, dialogue has become a pressing challenge.</em></p> <p><strong></strong><strong>The group </strong>of 80 young Christians and Muslims. <strong>The topic: </strong>multiculturalism, religious diversity and dialogue. <strong>The question: </strong>Do you care? The format: to “Regenerate,” with two days at Hertfordshire, in a relaxed atmosphere where even burning issues were able to be discussed. The protagonists were young people from the Focolare Movement in Great Britain and Ireland and, this year, a group from the Islamic Unity Society with whom there has been growing friendship and mutual esteem, several projects, study sessions and planting peace trees.</p>
<p><em>A young couple took their plans for a traditional wedding and honeymoon and turned it in to a beautiful opportunity to give.</em></p> <p>"Shocked and frozen." Those are two words that Mark and Ismini Svensson say perfectly describe their families' reaction to their unique wedding plans.</p> <p>Instead of having a typical ceremony, complete with cake and family photos, the couple chose a different path: To celebrate their love by sharing good deeds across the country with people they'd never met.</p>
<p><em>"If a woman who wears a miniskirt is sending an invitation about what will happen to her, then we are also sending an invitation!”</em></p> <p>Men in Turkey and neighbouring Azerbaijan are spearheading a protest meme in honour of a woman who was murdered after an attempted rape.</p> <p>Twenty-year-old Ozgecan Aslan's burned body was found on Friday in a riverbed. She was last seen two days earlier on a minibus in Mersin.</p>
<p><em>A project that assists adoptive families, organised by the New Families Association, is implemented with support from the Banco di Napoli Foundation. The importance of supporting families during and after the adoption process.</em></p> <p><strong></strong><strong>All the documents are stamped and now the child is a son or a daughter in every respect,</strong> a child upon whom to to pour all that love, which adoptive parents always have plenty of. Years of waiting and ocean-crossings did not stop them. After a first fleeting encounter in which child and parent became acquainted and some brief stays at hotels abroad, they are finally home. It is a unique and exhilarating experience to witness the completion of an adoption, however, more than a completion, it is also the beginning of an uphill journey.</p>
<p><em>Fr Gariguez, executive secretary of CBCP-NASSA, said that 80 per cent of the work is done. The rest will be ready by the end of March. In all, 3,753 houses will be built. In addition to a roof, the Church will provide beneficiaries with the means to support themselves and their families. The aim is "integrated human development".</em></p> <p>Manila - The housing project planned by the Filipino Church for typhoon Yolanda survivors is "80 per cent completed," said Fr Edu Gariguez.</p> <p>Speaking to <em>Radio</em><em> Veritas</em>, the executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP)'s National Secretariat for Social Action, Justice, and Peace (NASSA)/Caritas Philippines, added that he was confident the project would be completed by the end of March.</p>
<p><em>"There are names no one cares to remember, that no one cheers for: the 805 million people suffering from hunger in the world today"</em></p> <p>He may be one of the biggest names in world football, but it was the names of the 50 people mysteriously tattooed to Zlatan Ibrahimović's body that gained all the attention after his goal celebration yesterday. The Sweden and Paris St Germain (PSG) striker was booked for removing his shirt after netting with just two minutes played in the match against Caen, but almost 800 million people were responsible for Ibrahimović's yellow card.</p>
<p><em>Freedom from violence remains critical to achieving a sustainable future in which every child can grow up healthy, resilient, well-educated, culturally sensitive and effectively protected.</em></p> <p>African girls and boys continue to be subjected to distressing levels of physical, sexual and emotional violence despite the significant legal and policy measures adopted throughout the region, according to a new United Nations-backed report.</p> <p>Launched today (11th February) at UN Headquarters in New York, <em>The African Report on Violence against Children</em> is the first comprehensive report of its kind in the region and builds upon the commitment put forward by African Union Member States to promote a so-called “Africa Fit for Children.”</p>
Dialogue & Interculture
United World Week
Every year, from May 1st to 7th, the United World Project support, together with the Focolare Movement and Youth for a United World (Y4UW), the United World Week, a global action where many people promote events and initiatives worldwide to foster dialogue, unity, and peace.
Dialogue & Interculture
Dialogue & Interculture
Dialogue & Interculture
United World Week
Here’s the key: knowing that we do not know. No one possesses the absolute Truth, and by engaging in dialogue with everyone we can grasp aspects or fragments of truth that help us reassemble a shattered vase that we can restore only if we are “together”.
Economy & Work
Anna Granata, professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, reminds us that teaching peace is not an abstract utopia. It is something that happens every day in Italian classrooms among children with diverse stories, languages, and backgrounds.
Art & Social Commitment
Celebrated Marvel and DC artist Gabriele Dell’Otto invites us to consider the people who are working to build peace as the real superheroes of our world. A profound discussion on responsibility, citizenship, and the challenge of doing the extraordinary in our everyday lives.
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