{"id":290670,"date":"2003-07-28T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/initiatives-of-change\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:36:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:36:28","slug":"initiatives-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/initiatives-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Initiatives of change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;  \u00a0The former president of the International Red Cross is now the president of the Swiss Foundation \u201cCaux- Initiatives of change\u201d as well as of the International Association for Initiatives of Change. Both emerged from the former Oxford Group which was, Sommaruga said, like the Focolare Movement, a product of World War II.\u201d  In 1938, when countries were preparing for war, the founder of the Movement, Frank Buckmann, encouraged a \u201cmoral and spiritual rearmament\u201d for \u201ca world without hatred, fear and greed\u201d. Towards the end of the war, the Movement, under the name \u201cMoral Rearmament,\u201d (MRA) promoted the process of reconciliation of old enemies, first of all between Germany and France.  Today \u201cInitiatives of Change\u201d comprises a network of persons of different backgrounds, religions and generations who are dedicated to working at the ever necessary process of \u201crenewing the world.\u201d Every year in Caux, near Montreux, Switzerland, seminars on different themes are held. This year the themes included \u201cFrom conflict to encounter\u201d, \u201cThe spiritual-religious factor in a lay society,\u201d \u201cInitiatives for peace,\u201d and \u201cHuman safety for the prevention of conflicts.\u201d  <strong>by Beatrix Ledergerber-Baumer for KIPA agency, 3 agosto 2003 (our translation)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}