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 style="background-color: transparent;">Morocco in its natural family: a step towards the unity of the continent</em></p> <p>So often African news is about a suffering Africa. On January 31, 2017, Africa became an Africa that sings thanks to the return of <strong>Morocco</strong> to the African Union family after more than 30 years outside the continental organization.</p> <p>Indeed, the <strong><a href="https://www.au.int/">African Union</a></strong> is a continental organization created by the African leaders in Addis Ababa in 1963 to strengthen the unity of the continent and lead the peoples of the continent towards an African renaissance.</p>
<h2>The RImPRESA Project started off!</h2> <p><em>It is aimed at offering a support to the recovery of many small productive, trade, and tourism businesses affected by the earthquake in Central Italy, in the areas along the Via Salaria, in the territory between Amatrice and Ascoli Piceno, in the Val Nerina and in the Abruzzo Region. Rural areas, whose economy was mainly based on agriculture and sheep and cattle livestock, and whose customers were their same population along with tourists who came in summer and for the weekends.</em></p> <p>It all started after the earthquake that last August destroyed the town of Accumoli, in the Province of Rieti, Central Italy.</p> <p>A few days later, Federica left her home, in the Southern Province of Rome, officially:<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">«T</span>o go and check the condition of the house inherited by my husband<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">». I</span>n fact, as she adds <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">«B</span>ecause Roberto and his family were from Accumoli. After his death, we created an association of social promotion called<em> </em><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/abbraccioplanetario/">Abbraccio planetario</a></strong><em> </em>(Planetary Hug) to carry out actions that promote the values in which he believed, such as the care and love for our neighbours, especially the weakest. I went to Accumoli because I wanted to see with my own eyes the actual situation and what we could do to help them<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">».</span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">International Photo Competition 2017</span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Show that the world is full of sustainable alternatives in food and energy!</span></h2> <p>The campaign <strong><a href="http://www.cidse.org/rethinking-development/change-for-the-planet-care-for-the-people.html">Change for the planet - Care for the People</a></strong> has launched it’s first <a href="http://www.cidse.org/articles/rethinking-development/photocompetition.html">International Photo Competition</a> inviting participants to submit photographs of inspiring, citizen-led sustainable initiatives around food and energy.</p>
<p>1100 people from 49 countries, involved in the Economy of Communion, will meet Pope Francis on Saturday, February 4, 2017.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><em>The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which is celebrated in the Northern Hemisphere, on January 18 – 25, offers an opportunity to highlight not only many events that are taking place around the world, but also the daily dialogue of life among ordinary Christians, aroused by Chiara Lubich's charism.
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The year 2017 started with the news of the umpteenth terrorist attack. Pope Francis invitation to work for peace, and from Istanbul: “We want to continue living for peace”.
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Face to face with Piotr Zygulski, born in 1993, from a Polish father and an Italian mother, student of the Sophia University Institute. An insight on why he made such an important decision.</em></p>
<p><em>Il Programma di Turismo Sostenibile e Solidale nel Nord ovest dell'Argentina (TSNOA) è rivolto a 600 persone di cinque comunità indigene e contadine, caratterizzate da disoccupazione e povertà, che hanno a loro volta generato violenza, alcolismo, perdita d'identità culturale e migrazione forzata dalle rispettive località.</em></p>
Dialogue & Interculture
United World Week
Every year, from May 1st to 7th, the United World Project support, together with the Focolare Movement and Youth for a United World (Y4UW), the United World Week, a global action where many people promote events and initiatives worldwide to foster dialogue, unity, and peace.
Dialogue & Interculture
Dialogue & Interculture
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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