Focolare Movement

Trent, City Of Peace

Jun 29, 2013

An initiative involving school classes in Chiara Lubich's hometown, in north Italy: peace building through simple daily "acts of love"

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10 years ago the children of a class started with their teacher to throw “the cube of love.” Today, 10 years later, doing so are the children of all the classes of Trent. Their “acts of love” published on the municipality’s newspaper reaches the homes of the families in this city. Even this year the appointment for everyone was in Cathedral Square.

Let’s watch the news report with images taken by Paul Holnaider and Donato Chiampi.

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