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It’s Mariapolis time, especially in the Boreal Hemisphere. One of the first, from 14 to 17 June took place in Piedmont (Northern Italy). Some insights on how the Mariapolis impacts on city life.

The Genfest is coming soon and young people from all over the world are getting ready to experience how to go beyond all borders.

An arms factory provides jobs to many people, a committee fights to reconvert it to civilian purposes and an entire community works for peace. Paolo Balduzzi’s interview with Cinzia Guaita, one of the committee members.

A seminar on the Journalism of Dialogue took place in Bodo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso from 9 to 13 June. Michele Zanzucchi from Italy, Guy Roland from Benin, Armand Djoualeu from Cameroon plus many Christian and Muslim professionals and students from Niger, Mali, Ivory...

In preparation for the World Meeting of Families that will take place in Ireland August 21–26, the Focolare community put itself at the service of the local Church. One event was a day entirely dedicated to families.

A Muslim Afro-American judge from Indianapolis is inspired by the charism of Chiara Lubich to institute a special tribunal for people with mental problems or psychological dependence. “I learned as a judge to experience compassion.”

Married for 50 years, 7 children and 17 grandchildren: these are the “statistics” describing Anna and Claudio’s family. “We want to be instruments of God’s love.”

“Beyond Go Coffee”, the initiative relaunched by the youths of the Focolare Movement of Milan, in tune with the theme of Genfest 2018: going beyond oneself, to place the other in the centre.

An international ecological symposium organized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, 5-8 June. “Toward a Greener Attica, Preserving the Planet and Protecting its People”.