Luzia Wehrle, a Swiss Focolare member, served at the World Council of Churches (WCC) for four decades. She reflects on how she came to work at the WCC in 1969 at the age of 23; the visits of Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement; and why she believes nothing can ever separate us from God’s love.
Circulate gifts received
Allow forgiveness to be experienced
Be the first to love
Take on the suffering of others
An international seminar on integral ecology, proposing concrete actions in the Season of Creation will take place from 18th-20th September, in Castel Gandolfo (Italy).
Be merciful
Testimony by Helvisia Nji Bih (Mabih), from the Ivory Coast, at the event: “A Path to Regeneration: 35 Years of the Economy of Communion”, held in Buenos Aires in May 2026.
Share the burdens of others
Pope Leo XIV met with 83 cardinals and bishops, Friends of the Focolare Movement, coming from 40 countries. He invited them to be, within their local Churches and in a world marked by divisions and conflicts, witnesses to a unity capable of building lasting peace.