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15 years after the memorable meeting in 1998 at Buenos Aires in Argentina between Chiara Lubich and a numerous Jewish group, we publish an excerpt from theologian Piero Coda’s account of the event.

Priests and seminarians from all over the world spend a period of time at the Loppiano Formation Centre. It’s a “school of integral life”, as an Italian priest relates.

The courageous choices of a teacher in a higher education institution of a disadvantaged area on the outskirts of Paris lead to unconceivable consequences in the cultural and human development of the students.

An Italian girl narrates as a firsthand observer, the launch of the project of sharing with the African continent, which involves the youth of the Focolare Movement, as part of the larger United World Project. A “one way” trip.

The city of Riberão Preto in Brazil, among the largest in the State of São Paulo, was declared a “technological hub” by the Brazilian government, attracting new jobs. The experience of a parish in welcoming the new arrivals and making them feel at home.

An experience of Michele Francese, a young Italian man who started to build bridges of love at home, at work and in a foreign country.

A preschool that meets the needs of working mothers. A way of ‘doing good’ in a suburban district in Venezuela, illustrating the Word of Life for this month.

The story of the first Italian business to run on Economy of Communion principles, a maker of lighting equipment, which for a number of years has been testing out in Asia its person-centred method of working.

A concert in Havana on the 24th May celebrates one of the pillars of the spirituality that originated from the foundress of the Focolare Movement.

250 people gathered at the Weapons Room of the Old Palace for the presentation of the person of Igino Giordani together with that of the historic mayor of Florence, Giorgio La Pira: their common yearning of politics as love for the city.