{"id":291164,"date":"2005-10-12T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/a-united-world-is-possible\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:38:16","slug":"a-united-world-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/a-united-world-is-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"A united world is possible!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0As in previous years, <strong>United World Week this year was held contemporaneously in major population points around the world, <\/strong>ranging from the tsunami-stricken areas to the U.S.A., Africa, Middle East and other \u201chot spots,\u201d from Moscow to Patagonia.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2010.focolare.org\/layout\/foto2005\/20051013a.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" \/>The motto: <em><strong>\u201cGive a hand to our city,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> highlighted the commitment of the \u201cYouth for a United World\u201d (the promoters of United World Week) to do something for their own city, town, or village, with special outreach to the needy. In view of leading more and more people to believe that <strong>\u201cA united world is possible!\u201d<\/strong> the youth got local institutions and entities involved. They also collected the impressions of the adolescents who just concluded their \u2018Run4Unity\u2019 relay race in 300 cities all over the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>United World Week was concluded on Oct. 15 and 16 with two \u201cplanetary phone calls,\u201d<\/strong> where the youth participants in about 100 localities were linked up to listen to Chiara Lubich\u2019s message and exchange impressions and experiences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Birth of the idea. Ten years ago, <\/strong>at the conclusion of the Genfest 1995 in Rome, a proposal was launched to the youth all over the world, to public and private institutions, both national and international; in short, to everyone. It was not only a proposal; rather, it was an appointment \u2013 United World Week. Its aim? To highlight and give value to initiatives that promote unity \u2026 at all levels.\u201d At ten years from that historic moment, the balance sheet is positive \u2013 all ten editions of United World Week have attracted wide-scale participation all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth<\/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-291164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291164","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=291164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}