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Buddhists and Christians in dialogue, Part 2
The second chapter of the Taiwan symposium-pilgrimage brought the group to Dharma Drum Mountain, the monastery of a Chan Buddhism reformer one hour from Taipei. Following are some passages from the travel diary.
Ecuador: an intercultural laboratory
The meeting on the Pacific coast with the Afro-Ecuadorians of Esmeraldas,marked by poverty but rich in human dignity and values: a premise for a real intercultural school.
Central African Republic: Siding with the wounded
After an attack of the so-called Christian militias against peaceful Muslim cowhands, a Catholic priest of the Central African Republic, not heeding the threats, went to help the wounded in the hospital.
Myanmar: Towards a Church-Communion
The Asian Bishop-friends of the Focolare held their meeting in the first days of June, during which they were introduced to the spirituality of unity in an in-depth manner.
Rwanda: “Land of a Thousand Hills”
An Brazilian seminarian’s recount of his journey to the suffering African country of Rwanda where he visited other seminarians who, like him, want to live the spirituality of unity.
Athenagoras and Chiara Lubich
Fifty years ago, on 13 June 1967, the first meeting between the founder of the Focolare Movement and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I took place in Istanbul. It became a bridge of unity between this outstanding religious figure and Pope Paul VI.
Educating towards fraternity: a collective challenge
408 participants from Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina and Colombia, in the 1st International Congress for Educators of the Southern Cone,held in Rosario (Argentina).A wealth of educational practices to be shared.
Bartholomew I Awarded Honorary Degree
On May 31, 2017, the University of Tubingen, Germany, conferred an honorary doctorate to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I. The degree honours his long years of work in promoting understanding between the Orthodox Church and the Protestant...
New Zealand: the warmth of Rotorua
A Mariapolis was held on the banks of Lake Rotorua in New Zealand’s North Island, inhabited by the country’s biggest Maori community. It gathered 170 participants of the Focolare community of Oceania.
Paraguay: Yvy Marane’y, Land without evil
The Yari Miri Project: an encounter with the Ava Guaranì aboriginal community. A place that speaks of a journey in mutual love and rediscovered dignity.
Card. Bassetti, new President of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI)
On 23 May, Pope Francis chose the new President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference. Maria Voce extends warm felicitations on behalf of the Focolare Movement.
A Trip to Mocoa, Colombia
Last April, the city of Mocoa, which lies some 500 km south of Bogota, was overwhelmed by fierce floods. But from all the mud and sorrow life is been reborn.
Thought of the day
Welcome differences, seek what unites!
Welcome differences, seek what unites!