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European unity is in the making; Eastern and Southern European nations are being included. And now, for the first time in history, <\/strong>Movements, communities and groups of various Christian denominations, have embarked on a unified journey towards fellowship and collaboration. Together they want to contribute to the continent\u2019s spiritual unity, to building a kind of Europe which lives up to its universal vocation of peace and unity among peoples.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The venue of this grand assembly will be Stuttgart<\/strong> (Germany), at the Hanns Martin Schleyer Sports Palace, and will be linked up by satellite with meetings to be held at the same time in over 100 cities of Europe.<\/strong> The program<\/strong> includes presentations by founders and leaders of different Movements, Communities and groups, among which are: Chiara Lubich, Andrea Riccardi;<\/em><\/strong> Evangelical – Lutheran Pastors Friedrich Aschoff, Ulrich Parzany<\/strong>, Orthodox Fr. Heikki Huttunen<\/strong>. The audience can also look forward to hearing Romano Prodi,<\/strong><\/em> President of the European Commission, and Cardinal Walter Kasper,<\/strong><\/em> President of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, as well as Johannes Friedrich, <\/strong><\/em>Bishop of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Baviera. Many experiences of life will be shared by members of various Movements, Communities and groups <\/strong>as to how they respond to the basic questions of today: namely, questions about peace, about a new lifestyle which puts Europeans in dialogue with one another, how to integrate different cultures and peoples; family values, solidarity with Europe\u2019s and the world\u2019s disadvantaged. <\/em>The youth,<\/strong> too, will have a word to say about their commitment and their \u201cvision\u201d of Europe. The program <\/strong>will also include artistic pieces<\/strong> to express Europe\u2019s cultural riches. Among the participating artists are: Judy Bailey, Albert Frey, Beatbetrieb, Gen Rosso, Gen Verde, as well as the Ballet Company of Liliana Cosi and Marinel Stefanescu.<\/em> Bishops of different Churches, a large number of political representatives of different European countries, and personalities of the cultural sphere are also expected to attend.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Towards Stuttgart 2004<\/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-290748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290748","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=290748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/10.0.0.128\/2010focolare\/layout\/foto2004\/20040124c.jpg\")
Movements, Communities and groups would like to render visible existing realities such as: – a network of brotherhood which has already been extended throughout the continent <\/em><\/strong>and is breaking down false nationalism and historical barriers; – spiritual renewal<\/strong><\/em> which is growing out of putting the Gospel into practice and is manifesting itself in different sectors of social life; – the contribution of the nations <\/strong><\/em>towards building a Europe that belongs to its citizens.<\/p>\n