“Over the last few days in South Africa, there has been a lot of unrest, violence, violation of human rights… there are some South Africans who have refused to accommodate other brothers of other African nations in the country. It is difficult to see why these sparks of violence have emerged so strongly. We really need to promote tolerance towards the differences in the groups and communities everywhere. The migrants live in fear and many have already returned to their countries of origin, wrote Jacira from Johannesburg. This was the atmosphere in which the 7th death anniversary of Chiara Lubich (22/01/1920 – 14/03/2008) was held, and the seminar was entitled “Religion at the Service of Peace.” The speech of Ela Gandhi, niece of Mahatma, was very meaningful. On her many trips to Italy she had been impressed by the figure of Chiara Lubich and the spirituality of unity, as she so extensively stressed in her long speech. Among other things she also affirmed: “Upon acknowledging, like Gandhiji, that no results can be reached when people are jobless, and lack food, homes and clothing, Chiara conceived the idea of the Economy of Communion in liberty. Taking care of one another is her strong exhortation!” And further explained: “It is love for the others, in the form of mercy, love that opens hearts and hands to embrace the derelicts, the poor, those who have been marginalised from life and the repentant sinners.” “If we believe we are practicing our religion faithfully, when then is there so many battles, wars, abuse of power and sufferings perpetrated by man against man and indescribable atrocities committed by man in this world?” she asked, and strongly affirmed: “Every community of faithful must take the responsibility of correcting the erroneous interpretations of their own faith, and must not abandon their faith.” “Here in South Africa, during the apartheid period which was based on an erroneous interpretation of the Bibles,” according to Ms Ela Gandhi, “Our Christian brothers and sisters agreed with one another to produce the Kairos Document. This document affirms that “the problem in South Africa is not just that of a personal fault, it is a problem of structural injustice.” And Ms Ela Gandhi thus concluded: “Today, when the world and also our country is undergoing a high rate of violence and madness, anger and destruction, poverty and misery, we need to turn our gaze once again toward our concept of Ubuntu and see in what way each one of us can start introducing in his life, the agape, bhavana and many other similar concepts that refer to pure love so as to help create a better world.” More than ever today, to give our own contribution, the members of the Focolare in this country of such immense distances, commit themselves to reach the farthest communities to share the message of peace and unity, fruit of the Gospel lived.