On 16th July, the anniversary of the Pact of Unity between Chiara Lubich and Igino Giordani, Tonadico (Italy) awarded the international prize "Tonadico-City of the Pact" for the first time. The inaugural award went to, Gerhard Pross, one of the initiators of the ecumenical network "Together for Euro...
A chance encounter in hospital rekindles the concrete sense of helping one another, restores hope to someone who was ready to give up and gives life to the memory of a desire: to be builders of a better world.
From shaping clay as a child to the desire to see sculpture and sacred art as a language capable of bringing God to the people of our time, Ave Cerquetti, a longstanding member of the Focolare family who died at the age of 95, left a legacy that combines art, spirituality and above all communion.
Welcome back to “What’s UP?”, a space for connection of the Focolare Movement that brings us closer together and makes us more and more like family
The goal: to cooperate in building a more united world, inspired by Jesus’ prayer to the Father
“may they all be one” (Jn 17:21),
respecting and valuing diversity.
The Movement, which started in the Catholic Church,
includes Christians of different Churches and ecclesial communities. It collaborates with members of other religions and people of non-religious beliefs.






