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>We report news from the world about measures to combat land degradation for the World Day of desetification annualy observed on 17 June.</em></p> <p><strong>Tanzania and India to combat land degradation.</strong> Are some exemples how nations want to remeber actively the World Day to Combat Desertification on 17 June 2014.</p> <p><strong>Dodoma, Tanzania -</strong> The Deputy Minister of State in the Vice-President's Office (Environment), Ms Ummy Mwalimu, said that the day is being marked at a time when Tanzania is already witnessing serious effects of climate change in some areas.</p>
<p><em>Kiska invites homeless at the ceremony: "I want to help the poor"</em></p> <p><strong>Bratislava - Andrej Kiska is the new president</strong> of Slovakia. At the inauguration ceremony in Bratislava followed by a lunch, in addition to politicians and diplomats, the millionaire philanthropist has also invited a dozen homeless.</p> <p><strong>"I want to open the office</strong> of the President to those who need our help. This symbolic gesture to show that this is a priority," said Kiska who has decided to give up his salary to return him to the needy.
<p><em>A fragment of fraternity from The Saudi Arabia where a man has left his refrigerator in front of his home to give the opportunity to everyone to leave something for the less well-off children</em></p> <p><strong>What more could you ever</strong> think of a fridge in the street? The first pensieo would be that this is one of the many symbols of dgrado of a periphery. But no: there are those who use it to do acts of brotherhood.</p> <p><strong>In Saudi Arabia</strong>, a man has installed a giant refrigerator in front of his home. The major appliance is used every day to him and his neighbors to leave food for less fortunate children.</p>
<div style="height: 100%; color: #515151; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 130%; min-width: 90%; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 5px;"> <div style="margin-right: 2px; margin-left: 2px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; display: block; background-color: transparent; background-position: 2px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-width: 1px; border-color: #bbbbbb; border-style: dashed;"><em><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More than twenty minutes live streaming from Nairobi on May 1st connected the whole world to "Sharing with Africa", to start together the UWW (if you missed it: <a href="http://live.focolare.org/y4uw" style="color: #0e4aff; text-decoration: none;">live.focolare.org/y4uw</a>).</span></em></div> <div style="margin-right: 2px; margin-left: 2px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; display: block; background-color: transparent; background-position: 2px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-width: 1px; border-color: #bbbbbb; border-style: dashed;"> </div> <div style="margin-right: 2px; margin-left: 2px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; display: block; background-color: transparent; background-position: 2px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-width: 1px; border-color: #bbbbbb; border-style: dashed;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>" Welcome to the official launch of the United World Week 2014!"</strong> on May 1st connected the whole world to "Sharing with Africa".Many experiences, the presentation of theAtlas of Fraternity (collection of the first outcomes of the United World Project: <a href="it/dossier-uwp-it.html" style="color: #0e4aff; text-decoration: none;">www.unitedworldproject.org/it/dossier-uwp-it.html</a>) and the message of Maria Voce, president of the Focolare Movement, who thanked us for " the stubborn courage with which young people commit to purse the goal of a united world, immersed in the complex history of the contemporary world. <span title="Dopo il collegamento, la carica di energia del concerto del gruppo burundese “Gen Sorriso” (<a href=" https:="" www="" facebook="" com="" gen="" sorriso="">After the link-up, the exciting concert of the Burundian group "Gen Sorriso (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/gen.sorriso" style="color: #0e4aff; text-decoration: none;">www.facebook.com/gen.sorriso</a>) </span>concluded the day in the best way!
<p><em>A report on the United World Project, which was presented in Nairobi during the live streaming the May 1 with the opening of the United World Week 2014. Available in a first edition in Italian in the online version, with a simple download on this site. Soon the second edition for Città Nuova editrice.</em></p> <p><strong>It's possible speak today about universal brotherhood?</strong> Does not seem to be utopian. There are elements in the world that reveals this to us it. It's not a dormant principle of history books and recently even the Pope Francis has often mentioned fraternity and he has placed it as the central theme of the World Day of peace, 2014.</p> <p><strong>The <em>Atlas of universal fraternity. Realizin fraternity</em></strong> tells about 800 fragments of fraternity received in the first year of the United World Project. Available in two editions, the first with download online from the website www.unitedworldproject.org and the second for Città Nuova editrice.</p> <p><strong>The Atlas was presented in Nairobi</strong>, as part of "Sharing with Africa," the 1 May during the live streaming of the official opening of the United World Week 2014.</p>
<p><em>More than a billion people around the world will celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 2014—the 44th anniversary of the annual day of action.</em></p> <p><strong>Earth Day began in 1970</strong>, when 20 million people across the United States—that's one in ten—rallied for increased protection of the environment.</p> <p><strong>"It was really an eye-opening experience for me</strong>," Gina McCarthy, the U.S. Environmenta Protection Agency administrator, who was a self-described self-centered teenager during the first Earth Day rallies, told National Geographic.
<p><em>Co-ordinated by Slovenia with 14 countries of AI Macro-Region</em></p> <p><strong>Fishermen can be environmental guardians of the sea.</strong> This is the aim of the DeFishGear European project, Derelict Fishing Gear Management System in the Adriatic Region, coordinated by the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, Slovenia , together with 14 partner countries which take part in the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative.</p> <p><strong>The purpose of DeFishGear, which involves,</strong> in Italy, the Ispra-Institute for Protection and Environmental Research, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, ARPA (Environmental Protection agency) of Emilia Romagna region, the Mediterranean Consortium, technical and scientific branch of Lega Pesca (Fishing League), is to reduce the impacts caused by the marine debris in the Adriatic Sea, by involving fishing companies, researchers, NGOs, industries, local authorities.
<p><em>The Holy Father will meet twice the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, hold an ecumenical meeting in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, and sign a joint declaration.</em></p> <p><strong>Pope Francis will pray side-by-side</strong> with Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew in Jerusalem in a powerful sign of Christian unity during his May visit to Holy Land, the Vatican said on Thursday.</p> <p><strong>The prayer will take place</strong> in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the spots widely believed to be the sites of the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Jesus.
<p><em>The Holy Father will meet twice the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, hold an ecumenical meeting in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, and sign a joint declaration.</em></p> <p><strong>Pope Francis will pray side-by-side</strong> with Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew in Jerusalem in a powerful sign of Christian unity during his May visit to Holy Land, the Vatican said on Thursday.</p> <p><strong>The prayer will take place</strong> in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the spots widely believed to be the sites of the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Jesus.
Economy & Work
Thirty-five years ago a dream was born: the Economy of Communion. In late May Argentina will host an extraordinary celebration where people of all ages will come together to breathe new life into this project and write the future for a different kind of economy.
Art & Social Commitment
Art is not just memory, but a living force. Art historian Giulia Spoltore guides us through the great works of war-defying art, illustrating how beauty can transform society and create a universal culture of peace.
Health, Sport & Ecology
Lorna Gold, Executive Director of Laudato Si’ Movement, reflects on ten years of the encyclical, analysing how integral ecology is an essential path to global unity and tackling the climate crisis.
Education & Research
Operation Mato Grosso is working on over 100 missions across Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, all rooted in education, hard work, and solidarity. Jacopo Manara, who has been a volunteer for years, tells us their story.
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