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">Muslims in France and around the world banded together on Wednesday to strongly condemn the deadliest terror attack the country has seen in the past two decades.</span></em></p> <p><span lang="it"><span id="result_box" lang="it"><span id="result_box" lang="it">Three masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a notorious satirical magazine. One of the men reportedly shouted “Allahu akbar” as they unleashed a barrage of bullets that left at least twelve dead.</span></span></span></p> <p><span lang="it"><span lang="it"><span lang="it"><span id="result_box" lang="it">Muslim leaders and activists immediately denounced the terrorists actions, reiterating the verse in the Quran that tells Muslims when one kills just one innocent person, it is as if he has killed all of humanity.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><em>"The Christian-Jewish dialogue, prospects of re-encounter between two faiths": a courageous title that drew Jews and Christians from various parts of the world for three days, in late November, to live together an experience of growth.</em></p> <p><strong>“It was not a conference, but an experience</strong> and, to be more precise and in-tune with the event, I would call it an experience of <em>tikkun</em>, reparation, as explained in the Jewish tradition,” writes Roberto Catalano, from the Focolare’s Centre for <a href="http://www.focolare.org/in-dialogo/grandi-religioni/ebraismo/">Interreligious Dialogue</a> on his return from Salerno.</p>
<p><em>"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world." (Malala Yousafzai)</em></p> <p>Dear friends of the Living Peace Project, <br />Dear peacemakers,</p> <p>Time has come to prepare the Youth World Peace Forum (YWPF) to be held next year 2015, on May 4th – 6th in Cairo, Egypt. <br />This historical moment lived together, will give us new strength and conviction to build on and realize a more united and peaceful world.</p> <p>And for this we need the cooperation and support of all of you around in the world.</p>
<p><em><span id="result_box" lang="it">After the Sydney hostage crisis, acts of kindness to counteract the terrorism<br /></span></em></p> <p><span id="result_box" lang="it">From the horror that gripped the city of Sydney in the hostage crisis on December 16th that left two of the captives and the hostage-taker dead, seeds of compassion and solidarity have been sown with the Muslim community. To counter an escalation of anti-Muslim sentiments and fear of repercussions from the siege carried out by an Iranian immigrant brandishing a black flag with Arabic writing, Rachel Jacobs, a young Sydney resident, reached out to her Muslim neighbor.
<p><em>The largest global youth population in human history can create a better world for all</em></p> <p><em></em>Young people matter. They matter because an unprecedented 1.8 billion youth are alive today, and because they are the shapers and leaders of our global future. They matter because they have inherent human rights that must be fulfilled,’ according to the <strong>UN Population Fund</strong> (<a href="http://www.unfpa.org/">UNFPA</a>) report <a href="https://www.unitedworldproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/www.unfpa.org_sites_default_files_pub-pdf_EN-SWOP14-Report_FINAL-web.pdf">State of World Population 2014</a>.</p>
<p><em>From Argentina, the experience of a judicial official who tries to reconcile fraternity and justice by putting people first.</em></p> <p><strong>“I’ve been working in the criminal justice system</strong> of Santa Fe for twenty years. It’s not a good business card to be holding these days in Argentina, where officials and institutions are the subject of constant suspicion, whether justified or not.</p> <p>Ever since my first experience, the <a href="http://www.focolare.org/en/chiara-lubich/spiritualita-dellunita/">spirituality of unity</a> has given meaning to my presence in the environment where crime, violence and non-love are more evident than love, which is the fulfillment of the law, as St Paul says.</p>
<p><em>About 300 people - including Hindus, Muslims and some Christians - will celebrate the birth of Christ at Swarga Dwar, Mumbai, an ashram founded by PIME. The days leading up to the celebration are special for its children who play cricket, football and other games. "The kids wait for this festival with joy. They like to prepare the tree and put the star on the crèche," the facility's head said.</em></p> <p>Mumbai - "At Swarga Dwar, Christmas is an important day. We bear witness to Jesus before our guests and friends, who are mostly Hindus and Muslims. And his message becomes theirs," said Fr Vijay Rayala, regional superior of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) in India, as he talks about the Heaven's Gate ashram, a residence and rehabilitation centre in Mumbai for people with leprosy founded in 1983 by Fr Carlo Torriani, also a PIME missionary.</p>
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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.
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