Mohamed’s journey
“I thought you were asking for help and stumbled into this embrace. Your large, chilly arms awaited my warmth, an exchange of a kind gesture. Like earth awaits rain, a temple breathes prayer, a smile...
View ArticleReporter of change
“Breaking Rays” is a play on the words “Breaking News” which are used to describe the interruption of some latest sensational news story. The sensational news this time was a project for the promotion...
View ArticleA publisher, a book fair and a community
Pisa is known all over the world for its Square of Miracles, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, where the Leaning Tower of Pizza is located. Every year since 2003 the Pisa Book Festival is held in that...
View ArticleMaria Voce: “To dialogue means taking risks.”
The keyword is “journey”, because “truth is sought through journeying”. Maria Voce, or Emmaus as she is known in the Focolare, became animated as she described Pope Bergoglio’s vision of ecumenism. Her...
View ArticleThe Works of Chiara Lubich
“I never wrote a book,” Chiara Lubich said in 1995 when she received the Author of the Year Award from the Catholic Publishers and Booksellers Union (UELCI), “even though many books bear my name.”...
View ArticleWhen God calls us to an infinite love
“Soul” is the name of a television program that seeks “to go deep into the soul” of key figures of our times who have a great depth of human and cultural experience. On Sunday, September 24th, Monica...
View ArticleThanking those who dream of a united world
30th September 2017 Dear all, During our international meeting at Castel Gandolfo, we have been able to see all that the charism of unity is doing in the world and deepen our identity as the Work of...
View Article“Youth for a United World” launch new website
Youth for a United World is an international movement which gathers young people of different races, cultures, religions from 180 countries and across 5 continents. They strive to live for a more...
View ArticleRepublic of the Congo and Politicians for Unity
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been passing through a very delicate phase in its politics since last November 14th when the Premier Augustin Matata Ponyo was dismissed, following an...
View ArticleNew York Conference on the Information Society
A working session during the conference Taking stock 10 years from the World Summit on the Information Society (Tunis, 2004): building an information society that is focused on the human person;...
View ArticlePope Francis: a pilgrim of peace in Africa
Today Pope Francis sets out on his first trip to Africa where he will be visiting Kenya and Uganda (English-speaking nations) and the Central African Republic (a French-speaking nation). It’s a...
View ArticleLiving City wins two 2015 Catholic Press Awards
“We are honored, grateful and especially happy that the message of unity that we try to spread has been recognized. A special thank you to all our readers who support and encourage us on that path!”,...
View ArticleGiordani: The Role of the Writer
“In a rational world the writer should be located at the center of social life, as the one who directs and plays the spirit of the people. But the world is only partly ruled by rationality, in many...
View ArticleParis: towards a peaceful coexistence
The director of the French magazine, “Nouvelle Cité,” Dominique Bonnet, wrote: «Like all the French, we were shocked by last week’s events, a tragedy that led about four million people to rally in...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo: Dialogue to stop barbarism
“NetOne, the worldwide association of journalists and communications operators promoted by the Focolare Movement, strongly condemns the despicable attack against the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo....
View ArticleIn Cyprus, the presentation of Chiara Lubich’s writings in Greek
«Knowing how to lose» is a “shocking absurdity.” This was how Archimandrite Chrysostomos, Metropolitan of Kyrenia, defined the title of one of the first volumes of Chiara Lubich translated into Greek,...
View ArticleFocolare Movement: New Logo
“In the year 2000,” explain Walter Kostner and Margarida Nobre, who were entrusted with the task of acquiring a new logo, “Chiara Lubich had indicated ‘Mary, Mother of all Peoples’, in which she...
View ArticleCos’è il Collegamento CH?
www.focolare.org/collegamentoch «Il Collegamento CH. Una famiglia nel mondo. Connessa». Questo è l’annuncio con cui si presenta sul web il Collegamento, una delle caratteristiche originali dei...
View ArticleI colori del silenzio
A Trento, tranquilla cittadina del Nord Italia, si riacutizza inaspettatamente il fenomeno del razzismo, fino ad arrivare ad episodi di intolleranza estrema. In questa cornice viene in evidenza la...
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