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Africa: “We together with the others”
Organized by the Fondazione “Un cuore si scioglie” (“A heart melts” Foundation) , in collaboration with the Unicoop of Florence, the project involves two Italian high schools. The positive impact of their encounter with their African peers.
Ecological Commitment Rewarded in Austria
Near Vienna the Am Spiegeln Mariapolis Centre is awarded the “The Seal for Respect of the Environment” because of its constant commitment to the protection of natural resources
Chiara Lubich: the pedagogy of fraternity
In the south of Italy a kindergarten named after the foundress of the Focolare, chosen as the example of a pedagogy of fraternity and of love for the youngest and the least.
Chiara Lubich and World Religions: Islam
In view of the sixth anniversary of Chiara Lubich’s death (1920-2008), this brief summary is presented concerning the dialogue that has developed between the Focolare and members of Islam.
Klaus Hemmerle and His Passion for Unity
A brief but intense thought in which the bishop of Aachen, Germany, who died twenty years ago, strongly underscores his passion for unity, living in communion among living cells
Gen Verde in concert in Verona
With the cry START NOW, WOW! the concert started on the first of February at the Palariso di Isola in La Scala: hours of explosive joy to crown the days lived together with the youth of Verona.
Loppiano’s First Weekend For Giving
On February 8-9, 2014 the Focolare town held its first solidarity project, which has roots in the early days of the Movement and the early days of Christianity
In Africa, as a family
She is Swiss, he is Brazilian, and both just recently married. In front of them, a dream: to share their talents with the poorest of the poor, also of a different culture. The family that opens up to the community where it finds itself.
Chiara Lubich and Religions. Buddhism
As the sixth anniversary of Chiara Lubich’s death (1920-2008) draws near, we offer a summary of the Focolare’s dialogue with members of several major religions. We begin with Buddhism
Refugee emergency and the challenge of integration
The uninterrupted influx of migrants to the southern Italian and Maltese coastlines, calls out to our conscience and finds concrete answers in a communal action. The experience of the communities of the Focolare.
Germany: Art and the Gospel
Christian Kewitsch, focolarino, orchestra director in a school in Hamburg. The choice of God lived in professional life and art as a priviledged way to bear witness and to transmit evangelical values.
Purified by the Word
Making the commitment to put the Gospel into practice helps us to perceive the presence of God behind the faces of the lonely, the marginalized, the rejected.
Thought of the day
Be recollected
Be recollected