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>Girl sends letter asking her father's boss to give him time off for his birthday (and it worked)</em></p> <p><strong>A Google employee is getting a week off work</strong> to spend with his young daughter thanks to an adorable note she wrote to his boss. Katie begged the internet giant to give her father just one day off to celebrate his birthday.<br /><strong>'Dear google worker,'</strong> the handwritten note reads. 'Can you please make sure when daddy goes to work, he gets one day off. Like he can get get a day off on wednesday. Because daddy ONLY gets a day off on saturday.'</p> <p><strong>The little girl’s plea didn’t end there.</strong>'P.S. It is daddy’s BIRTHDAY!' she wrote in blue crayon. 'P.P.S. It is summer, you know.'
<div style="height: 100%; color: #515151; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-color: #ffffff; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; line-height: 130%; min-width: 90%; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial;"> <p style="font-size: 13px;"><em>In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmBIpUYv-QY" target="_blank">a video on youtube</a> , to mark WRD of Friday june 20, Berahino has thanked England for giving him ‘a second chance’ out the war.</em></p> <p style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmBIpUYv-QY">West Bromwich Albion striker</a> Saido Berahino has thanked the England nation for giving him a second chance at life. He once thought his life was over.</p> <p style="font-size: 13px;"><strong>In 1993, Berahino was born during</strong> the Burundi civil war and lost his father four years later. After escaping the war-torn country, Berahino was separated from his family, including his mother and sisters.
<p><em>A project that provides various forms of help and action, in a sort of partnership between different cities and communities. Youth, adults, children, locals and tourists alike: there are many people involved in the project Batam.</em></p> <p><strong>Fifty minutes of the ship separated Singapore from Indonesia</strong>, which is one of the 17,000 islands of Batam. Twenty miles away and nearly two worlds that do not belong: the relations between the two countries are good, but while the former is rich, the second is poor. While one is a city-state with five million inhabitants, is the second largest archipelago in the world where 240 million people live. Only these numbers could make people understand why the reaction of tre.D 'Moreover the words of the Gospel were clear: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" (Golden Rule, ed.).
<p><em>All over the Indonesian capital Jakarta, volunteer teachers are teaming up with local graffiti artists to try and bring school to the city’s many street children.</em></p> <p><strong>Thousands of children work</strong> on the streets of Jakarta, living from begging and dropping out of school.</p> <p><strong>The idea of the project, named 'Graffiteach'</strong>, is to raise the children’s awareness through a medium they are exposed to every day.</p>
<p><em>A photo an act of fraternity. Pope Francis brings together the world's three greatest religions with a joint hug for a Jew and a Muslim</em></p> <p><strong>There were many striking images</strong> during the extraordinary 72 hours that Pope Francis spent in the Middle East.</p> <p><strong>However, the image that stood out most to me</strong> was a spontaneous embrace between Sheikh Omar Abboud, Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Pope Francis in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.</p>
<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!
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.
Dialogue & Interculture
Dialogue & Interculture
Economy & Work
Active Citizenship & Politics
After thirty years spent in some of the world's most challenging environments, Marcoluigi Corsi, UNICEF Representative in Lebanon, reflects on child protection, hope and the humanity that endures even in the midst of war.
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.
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