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 can try and find common ground with everybody, without fear and without losing our identity" Francis said.</em></p> <p><strong>Vatican City, 14 Oct. (AK) -</strong> Pope Francis on Monday said Catholics should not be afraid to debate their faith with other religions and with non-believers.</p> <p><strong>"Every Christian must take steps towards others</strong>, enter into dialogue with those who do not share their beliefs, who belong to another religion or who are atheists," Francis said."We can try and find common ground with everybody, without fear and without losing our identity," he told the members of the Vatican's evangelising body during an audience at the Apostolic Palace.Earlier on Monday, the popular Argentine pontiff denounced hypocritical Christians who perform good works to appear perfect and achieve personal salvation but who do so "without God's love"."We need to do good.</p>
<p><em>Kauai’s county council approved a proposed law Wednesday that mandates farms to disclose pesticide use and the presence of genetically modified crops.</em></p> <p><strong>The bill now goes to the mayor</strong>, who has 10 days to sign it into law. The measure applies to farms that use more than five pounds or 15 gallons of restricted-use pesticides annually. The bill also requires a 500-foot buffer zone near medical facilities, schools and homes—among other locations. The island hosts 15,000 acres of crop lands that are used by biotech companies and chemical manufacturers to test their products.</p>
<p><em>Italian and Balkan businessmen meet in Belgrade</em></p> <p><strong>(ANSAmed) - BELGRADE, OCTOBER 15 -</strong> Italy's interest in collaborating with Serbia and other Balkan countries for environmental protection and the use of renewable energy was underscored in a meeting between Italian businessmen and their counterparts from Balkan nations Tuesday in the Serbian Chamber of Commerce. The meeting was held as part of an international two-day conference on the theme 'Environmental Technologies and Renewable Energy Sources in the Balkans'.</p> <p><strong>Chamber of Commerce president Rasa Ristivojevic</strong> told the Italian guests about the benefits of investment in Serbia's free trade zones, where numerous Italian companies already operate.</p>
<p><em>For “The protagonists of the fraternity,” the figure of the sixteen year old Pakistani awarded the European Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought.</em></p> <p><em></em><strong>Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai</strong> first came to public attention in 2009 when she wrote an affecting BBC diary about life under the Taliban. But three years later, in October 2012, she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman because of her campaign for girls' education. She was already well known in Pakistan, but that one shocking act catapulted her to international fame.</p> <p><strong>She survived the dramatic assault</strong>, in which a militant boarded her school bus in Pakistan's north-western Swat valley and opened fire, wounding two of her school-friends as well. The story of her slow recovery, from delicate surgery at a Pakistani military hospital to further operations and a programme of rehabilitation in the UK, has since been closely tracked by the world's media.</p>
<p><em>Rediscovering a dream</em></p> <p><strong>Europe’s deepest meaning embraces</strong> the physical map of the continent, crossing the political, economic and cultural history of millenniums, recalling the moral values on which a project of unification was built, which continues its progress today, between shoves, arrests, and restarts.<br /> <br /><strong>If the bases of the European civilization were built</strong> starting from ancient times, if the development of Christianity and of the Christian civilization have introduced elements of homogeneity, of a precise and clear European conscience, we cannot speak about of it if not in these modern times and in this contemporary era, a period that has known the most dramatic confrontations between opposing nationalisms, between ideologies able to put forward States’ claims and their will for economical dominance, and the cultural and anthropological confrontations going from political spaces, to battle fields.
<p><em>COMAI-sponsored debate on Francis October 19 in Rome</em></p> <p><strong>(ANSA) - Rome -</strong> The Association of Arab Communities in Italy (COMAI) will celebrate this year's Eid al-Adha, or the Muslim Feast of the Sacrifice, with a debate in Rome on mutual cultural understanding and the possibilities for dialogue with Pope Francis.</p> <p><strong>The Eid festival begins Tuesday</strong>.COMAI will hold its debate on Saturday, October 19 in a hotel in the Italian capital.</p> <p><strong>"The Eid festival will be an occasion</strong> to meet and debate religious issues and the turning point represented by Pope Francis", COMAI President Foad Aodi explained.</p>
<p><em>Ten rules launched at the end of the Meeting "Learning Faternity" in Castelgandolfo<br /></em></p> <p><strong>During the conference-workshop</strong> about Education and Fraternity wich took place last mounth ( Castelgandolfo 6-8 September) the Project of Learning Fraternity continues with lot's of enthusiasm with the "Ten rules for a Fraternal Education" .</p> <p><strong>Fraternity: person-relationship</strong></p> <p><strong>1.</strong> Be true witnesses of fraternity. “Educate with one’s life”: offer a model based on the authenticity of the educator’s being, on trust, dialogue, unconditional acceptance.
<p><em>It will start in Berlin and will go through Moscow, Irkutsk, Beijing, Pyongyang, Seoul and Busan. A journey towards reunification of Koreas</em></p> <p><strong>A Peace Train has recently started its journey</strong> from Berlin, Germany through Russia and China to northeast Asia and the World Council of Churches (WCC) 10th assembly in Busan, Republic of Korea.<br />The train, which aims to raise awareness about the 60-year division of the Korean Peninsula, will travel through Moscow, Irkutsk, Beijing, Pyongyang and Seoul, and will finally arrive in Busan around the beginning of the assembly on 30 October.</p> <p><strong>The Peace Train is a project</strong> of the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) and the Korean Host Committee for the WCC assembly.</p>
Health, Sport & Ecology
United World Week
Discover Run4Unity 2026, a global race bringing thousands of young people together in the name of peace. From Italy to Uganda, Brazil to Hong Kong, the relay of solidarity and sport forms just one part of United World Week 2026.
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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