News

May 10th marks the anniversary of the encounter between the Bishop of Rome and the head of the Coptic Church, the largest Christian church in Egypt. Traveling the path towards visible unity. Some comments from Sherin, focolarina from the Coptic Church.

Anxiety in Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) due to some cases of Ebola in nearby Mali. The media and institutions have been mobilised to prevent it from spreading. Together we can!

Protests explode after the death of the 25-year-old African American Freddie Gray while he was under arrest. The commitment of the Focolare community, together with other groups to pacify the city.

Amid the social turmoil besetting the country, the figure of Chiara Lubich was recalled in a speech by Ela Gandhi, on the occasion of a Memorial Lecture held in her honour.

The Focolare’s scholastic organisation committed to giving children a worthy future through education, was among the winners of the “Roland Berger Prize for human dignity.”

Only a few hours until the start of the worldwide relay for peace: sport events based on solidarity in some of the most tested regions of the world. Teens will be running in the Holy Land, Ukraine, Pakistan, Congo and 150 other points of the earth that will be touched by the race for unity.

Vilson Groh, a priest from Florianópolis south Brazil, for 34 years carries out his ministry in the poorest districts of the city.

“Fabric, Flavour, Festival – discovering fraternity” is the title of the Youth for a United World’s annual worldwide appointment. This year’s main events will be held in India, at Mumbai and Coimbatore, spotlighting and sharing the uncertainty of the young people from Nepal regarding their country that has been devastated, and the families that have been displaced.

Young environmental engineers specialising in renewable Energy, agronomists, architects, economists and artists, get together in Argentina for a two-day seminar on eco-sustainability.

Thousands dead, and the total count is forecasted to rise. Thousands of wounded and millions of people struck by the earthquake which on 25 April devastated this country. The Focolare Movement joins the choir of prayer and expresses its commitment to concretely support the victims of the disaster.