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Called to hope – Key players of dialogue
cumenical Conference promoted by the Focolare Movement celebrating three anniversaries taking place in 2025.
Among the participants: Msgr. Andrea Palmieri (Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity),
Martin Illert (WCC), H. E. Khajag Barsamian (Armenian Apostolic Church), Elisabeth Newman (Baptist World Alliance), Margaret Karram (Focolare Movement).
Inauguration of the exhibition on Chiara Lubich
On the occasion of the Jubilee 2025, the Chiara Lubich Centre, together with the historical Museum Foundation of Trentino (Italy) have set up an exhibition dedicated to Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement. The exhibition was inaugurated on Friday, the 14th of March on the anniversary of Chiara’s death, at the Focolare Meeting Point, in central Rome.
Argentina: flood in Bahía Blanca, an unexpected miracle
Bahía Blanca is a coastal city located at the gateway to Argentine Patagonia begins. With its 370,000 inhabitants, it is the economic, religious and cultural centre of a vast region. Just a few kilometres away, another 80,000 people live in the city of Punta Alta....
Chiara Lubich: “Your neighbour is another you”
With what eyes do we look at the world and our fellow travellers in the adventure of life? It is a question of vital importance, in an era like ours marked by polarisation and disagreements, loneliness and distances between the haves and the have-nots, without forgetting the increasingly pervasive presence of artificial intelligence.
“If I look at this city of Rome…”
A multimedia exhibition dedicated to Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement, is opening in Rome at the Focolare Meeting Point and will be open to the public until 31st January, 2026.
One Humanity, One Planet: Synodal Leadership
An international programme for 100 young political leaders will begin in April 2025.A two-year path aimed at strengthening the participation of young people in political action processes at a global level. There are just a few more days left to sign up.
Living the Jubilee in Rome
Rome is welcoming pilgrims from all over the world for the Jubilee of Hope. The Gen 4, the children of the Focolare Movement in Rome, had the idea of a tour of some of the most important places as a way for them to be pilgrims of hope, especially by helping the most disadvantaged.
Sophia University Institute: opening of the 2024-25 academic year
‘Dialogue, religions, geopolitics’ was the title of the inaugural lecture given by Fabio Petito, Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex.
A Focolare in the indigenous heart of Guatemala
Two years ago a group of focolarine relocated to begin an experience of living alongside indigenous communities.
Looking but not judging
Idea of the Month – March 2025
‘Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?’ (Lk 6:41)
Jesus had come down from the mountain where he had spent the night in prayer and then had chosen his apostles. When he reached a flat place, he began to preach to them, beginning with the proclamation of the Beatitudes. Luke’s and Matthew’s gospels differ: in Luke’s...
Dear Pope Francis
Memories and “secular” prayer of a non-believer
Thought of the day
Actions, not words!
Actions, not words!