News
From the Focolare Community in Athens
The situation in Athens has turned dramatic with the arrival of thousands of refugees. There is talk of a humanitarian crisis, exacerbated by the closure of the Balkan route. Service infrastructures are lacking, but the solidarity is unstoppable.
A story from the Macedonian border
Italian Religious Information Service (SIR) interview with Dolores Poletto from the Focolare Movement in Skopje, Macedonia. Her account of the refugees stranded in Idomeni, Greece: “In that cold and mud I saw a humanity that was wounded.”
Tending to the homeless at the railway station in Rome
800 hot meals per week: on Mondays and Tuesdays at the Ostiense station and Saturdays and Sundays at the Tuscolana. A RomAmoR onlus project involving over 200 volunteers
Brussels: “A fraternity choir” among Muslims and Christians
Despite the terroristic alert, the Muslim association “Light of the Heart” and its partners, among which is the Focolare, offered an authentic immersion in universal brotherhood to around 500 people gathered in the “Claridge Hall” of Brussels – Madou..
Lombardy
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Lombardy
Colombia: people capable of peace
Cristina Montoya, a researcher in social communications and politics at the Sophia University Institute, offers a retrospective reading of the fruits of Chiara Lubich’s spirituality in the tormented peace process her country, Colombia, is undergoing
The Balkan War: Chiara was at our side
It has been twenty five years since the outbreak of the conflict that devastated the people of ex-Jugoslavia. Through words and gestures of peace, Chiara Lubich always remained close to the people.
Syria. God overcomes Evil
Continual violations of the ceasefire threatens peace in Syria. Some thoughts of Pascal Bedros, a focolarino from Aleppo, on the commitment to peace in the light of Chiara Lubich’s 2002 invitation to overcome Evil with Good.
Fontem, a Jubilee of Thanksgiving
Accompanied by Bishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya and Emeritus Bishop Francis Teke Lysinge, a delegation from the Diocese of Mamfe, Cameroon, visits the International Centre of the Focolare, to say thank you to Chiara Lubich.
Thought of the day
Welcome everyone
Welcome everyone