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The President of the German Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Zollitsch, welcomed Maria Voce and Giancarlo Faletti on 24 May in Freiburg during their visit to Germany. The theme of their meeting was living faith in communion.

The school of civil economy, established on 19 May in the Focolare’s international little town in Loppiano, is one of Italy’s pre-eminent examples of synergy between associations and activities involved in civil economy.

Two-month tour in Brazil with their “Strong without violence” project. They begin with communion: a fraternal gathering with the Fazenda da Esperanca and end with the WYD in Rio.

Two chaplains at the Viterbo prison, one Orthodox and the other Catholic, visited the small town of the Focolare Movement along with the Romanian Orthodox community.

Interview with the judicial officer Giovanni Caso, member of the central international commission of Communion and Law, on his return from a visit to Guatemala and Colombia.

A 10th course on inculturation has taken place at Mariapolis Piero’s Centre for Inculturation in Nairobi, Kenya. The 287 participants included clergy, laity and young people from all the geographic region of the African continent.

Two thousand attend a forum on active citizenship training, promoted by a Manila parish just before local elections.

Maria Voce travels to Aachen, Germany, to pay homage to German bishop Klaus Hemmerle (1929-1994). An exchange of reflections by theologians and collaborators in order to hear, learn and live his teachings.

An interfaith meeting at the Kehillat Yedidya modern orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem gathered together young Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Rabbi Kronish and the apostolic nuncio in Israel, Mons. Lazzarotto, welcomed the participants.

Projects by groups and individuals belonging to Youth for A United World are multiplying throughout the world, beneath the umbrella of the United World Project.