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>Through soccer, youth in South Africa come closer to one another.</em></p> <p><strong>Like many others from my generation</strong>, after graduation I was working part-time while struggling to find meaningful, career-focused work, when I stumbled across an internship opportunity with the Football Foundation of South Africa (FFSA), among other job postings in a newsletter.</p> <p><strong>The FFSA is a nonprofit organization</strong> founded in 2008 that has served the small town of Gansbaai and surrounding communities ever since by offering social integration, education and life skills through the vehicle of sports.
<p><em>Two associations for social development that have been operating in Africa for many years. Testimonies from some of the protagonists, personal and collective stories supported by a strong spirit of brotherhood</em>.</p> <p><strong>The Focolare’s United World Project (AMU)</strong> and its partner in Burundi, Cadre Associatif des Solidaires (CASOBU), are quite a winning team! This is thanks also to co-financing by several Italian state entities with whom they were able to conclude several microcredit projects on the peripheries of Bujumbura and in the Province of Ruyigi, Burundi. In all, 80 microcredit groups have been established. The savings accumulated within each group has allowed 406 people to take part in the first project; and 722 people in the second project to begin a production business that enables them to support their families.
<p><em>A day to remember: the 23th of august the Baltic states marked 25 years since two million people joined hands in a landmark human chain linking up their capitals to demand freedom from the Soviet Union.</em></p> <p><strong>All three Baltic prime ministers gathered</strong> in Riga to commemorate the anniversary of this act of peaceful defiance that spanned more than 600 kilometres (400 miles) across the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian republics of the Soviet Union and became known as the Baltic Way.</p> <p><strong>"The Baltic Way was our way to freedom ?-</strong> a way for our countries to show the rest of the world that we wanted to be free," Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma said alongside her Estonian and Lithuanian counterparts at the national library.
<p><em>Japanese government 'ready to respond to urgent cases' with experimental vaccine, as British Ebola patient arrives back in UK from Sierra Leone</em></p> <p><strong>Tokyo stands ready to offer</strong> an experimental drug developed by a Japanese company to help stem the global tide of the deadly Ebola virus, the top government spokesman said on Monday.</p> <p><strong>The World Health Organization</strong> (WHO) has been discussing the use of unapproved drugs as a way of getting a handle on an outbreak in Africa that has already cost more than 1,400 lives, with thousands more people infected.
<p><em>As many as 10,000 crowd St. Peter's Square to hear Francis.</em></p> <p><strong>Vatican City, August 27</strong> - Pope Francis on Wednesday praised an elderly woman he said refused to gossip because "she recognized the image of God in one another".</p> <p><strong>Such kindness and faith</strong> from a woman who worked hard for her parish was worthy of "canonization" as a saint, the pope added during comments to a crowd that filled St. Peter's Square during the pontiff's weekly general audience.(...)
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">She is the first woman in history to be awarded mathematics’ highest honour</span></em></p> <p><strong>Maryam Mirzakhani,</strong> professor of mathematics at Stanford University, became the first woman in history to be awarded mathematics’ highest honour, the Fields Medal.</p> <p><strong>Winning the Fields Medal</strong> is something akin to winning a string of Olympic golds, or being Wimbledon champion several years in a row.
<p><em>Artists and writers to discuss migration, Euro-Med democracy</em></p> <p>(ANSAmed) - <strong>The Sabir Festival of Mediterranean cultures</strong> will seek to promote the idea of Lampedusa as the door to Europe, and not only a symbol of the tragedy of migrants fleeing wars and hardship.</p> <p><strong>To be held October 1-5,</strong> the festival is sponsored by ARCI, the October 3rd Committee, and the Lampedusa city council, under the aegis of the Prime Minister's Office and Italian state broadcaster RAI.</p>
<p><em>A video to comunicate the personal commitment to building peace.</em></p> <p><strong>A young people realized <a href="http://youtu.be/EhTS6SW8E08" target="_blank">this video</a></strong> for "Dialogue to unlock" the appeal for peace of young people of Focolare Moviment.</p> <p><strong>"I thought that it is impossible</strong> to stop a war alone. (...) I talked about this with friends and family and they are not alone. (...) Everything starts from piccli gestures," says the video.</p> <p><strong>"We can no longer ignore</strong> - it's possible to read on the Fb page of "Dialogue to unlock " - the suffering of millions due to the injustices of war. To take action, we’ve committed ourselves to influencing the public opinion by developing a greater awareness of the crisis in the Middle East and sending financial help to the families affected by it.</p>
Dialogue & Interculture
United World Week
More than 170 events across dozens of countries brought United World Week 2026 to life through initiatives, meetings, and concrete actions dedicated to peace, fraternity, and the building of a more united world.
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Active Citizenship & Politics
Stefano Zaffino, author of Fraternità e Profezia (Fraternity and Prophecy): The Thought of Igino Giordani in the Wake of the Encyclical Fratelli tutti, reflects on fraternity as a response to the conflicts and divisions of the contemporary world.
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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