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Strife in English-speaking Cameroon
The clashes have started again and the tension is high. On 22 September and 1 October the army suppressed the peaceful demonstrations, killing and wounding some of the protesters who were asking for the independence of the British-speaking regions. That same day in...
Reset your world. You’re in control.
On September 23 and 24 over a thousand young people converged on the Focolare town of Mariapolis Lia in Argentina, to take part in the 2017 youth festival in preparation for the upcoming Genfest 2018.
California In Flames
Cindy reports from the Focolare community: “We got away and are now safe. My heart is in pieces for the people who lost everything. This is how we’re leaning what matters in life, certainly not material things. Up until today the death toll has risen to 31 and more than 400 missing.”
Curitiba, Brazil: Primacy in Dialogue
The Marian Ecumenical Symposium was held on the occasion of the 3rd centenary celebration of Our Lady of Aparecida, and 500 years of the protestant Reformation: a new step in the ecumenical journey among Christians, Catholics and Lutherans.
Among Karen Refugees in Thailand
The story of a friendship and sharing that brings relief and builds solid bridges, amidst one of the many tragedies unfolding in the world today, the flight of hundreds and thousands of refugees from Myanmar
Spain. #I’mDialogue
In front of the situation that has been created in Catalonia, the Focolare Movement in Spain has launched a communiqué through which one commits to living a culture of dialogue, “a powerful tool that makes interests in others possible, entering into the reality they...
Brazil: Global health in focus
Strategies and action plans for personal care at collective and individual levels, were the themes of the recent Congress for healthcare practitioners promoted from 7 -10 September in Sao Paolo by the Health Dialogue Culture.
50th Anniversary of Living City
To celebrate its 50 years of activity, the English language magazine, founded in 1967 in New York as one of the 32 editions of the Focolare Movement, held a conference on 24 September entitled, “Building bridges: how can media facilitate dialogue in our polarised...
From the Focolare Community in Mexico
The Focolare Movement wishes to express its gratitude for the support it has received after the recent earthquakes in central and southern regions of the country, on the 7th and 9th of September.
Focolare Movement on the move
Small groups of adults and young people spend brief periods in remote and often frontier regions of the world, to help keep communities of people that live the ideal of unity to be more united.
Albania: Faces for Peace
“Building bridges – go4peace 2017” is the camp for peace which took place at Shkodër, in Albania, from 10 to 22 August, with young people from 12 different countries. You can see their faces in the video clip “Yourope.”
Brazil: Young Continental Missionaries
The Pope’s invitation during the World Youth Day (WYD) 2013 in Rio, gives rise in Juiz de Fora, to a group of young missionaries of various movements, parishes and new communities, promoted by the young people of the Focolare.
Thought of the day
Be capable of closeness
Be capable of closeness