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A great turnout at the second edition of “The Earth’s Village,” event organized by Earth Day and the Focolare Movement. Ecology, peace, dialogue at all levels.

The testimony of Bede Baumgartner, Swiss priest in Ivory Coast. The discovery of a vibrant culture and the effort to be close to people through acceptance and deep listening

On Sunday, April 23rd a group from the “Fazenda” from 14 countries visits the Focolare’s International Centre. A story of friendship connected to the spirituality of unity.

Remembering Chiara Lubich on the 50th anniversary of the New Families Movement in Loppiano, Italy, March 10 – 12.

News received from the Focolare community on location. Two churches have been hit, in Tanta and Alexandria with 45 dead and 118 injured. The Holy Father’s prayer.

At the request of the bishop there, three focolarini open a focolare house in the Lesser Himalayas, with the challenge of bringing the light of the Gospel with their lives to those fertile mountain lands.

The 5th centennial of Luther’s Protestant Reformation is an event of great ecumenical importance for Catholics and Lutherans. An in-depth study of the New Humanity magazine on the Report of the Catholic-Lutheran Commission for Unity.

During the convention of the Bishop Friends of the Focolare (Castel Gandolfo 7-10 March) on the theme of “Jesus Forsaken as the key to the culture of encounter,” Archbishop Giorgio Lingua recounted his story as a Vatican diplomat in landlocked countries.

25 March 1957: Rome is a witness to the signing of the treaty that instituted the European Economic Community. We commemorate this moment with some insights of Igino Giordani on Europe and its long-awaited unity.

From window-washer, during the Socialist period, to Archbishop of Prague. For eight years he moderated a group of some thousand Bishop Friends of the Focolare Movement.

During the congress of the Bishops–Friends of the Focolare, representatives from the diocese of Lodwar, Kenya, gave their testimony of how, in times of shortage and guerrilla warfare, the diocese hosts 200,000 refugees.