All over the planet, from 1-9 May, the \u2018United World Week\u2019 takes off at the same time. This is an initiative that has been promoted by Youth for a United World (the wide-reaching youth section of the Focolare Movement) since 1996 to influence public opinion.<\/p>\n
It is made up of many different types of events including cultural evenings, celebrations, sports competitions; meetings on subjects that interest young people, from disarmament to immigration. Above all solidarity projects in run-down neighbourhoods. With just one aim: to spread the values of fraternity, peace, and unity amongst peoples. And to show that universal fraternity is possible. \u2018United World: let\u2019s face the challenge\u2019 is the slogan for this year\u2019s events.<\/p>\n
In a presentation of these events in an American magazine called \u2018Living City\u2019 we read: \u2018The activities organised by the Youth for a United World throughout the world are like a mosaic of fraternal love, where they try to put into practice the true meaning of the word “love” and with the word “fraternal” they transmit a sense of equality and fraternity.\u2019<\/p>\n
Chiara Lubich said to the young people: \u2018Your main aim is to apply the Gospel to earthly realities to make it come alive.\u2019 The young people welcomed her words with great enthusiasm. This message is common to many of the great religions and other spiritual leaders. Mahatma Gandhi used to say: \u2018You and I are one. I cannot harm you without harming myself.\u2019 In the Suras of the Koran we read: \u2018Give your relation what he is due, and do the same with the poor person and the traveller.\u2019 It is the application of the Golden Rule, which is present in all the great religions, which says: \u2018Do to others what you would have them do to you\u2019 (Lk 6:31).<\/p>\n
There are many websites giving information in different languages on the different events:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/settimanamondounito2010.blogspot.com\/p\/gmu-nel-mondo.html or simply:<\/p>\n
www.mondounito.net.<\/p>\n
The young people like to use a name for their events that Chiara Lubich suggested: Fragments of Fraternity. Fragments because it may simply be an activity involving a home for old people, a nursery or a school. Fraternity because they are projects which have an aim: to promote in the world we live in and with all the means suggested by love a culture of communion, interdependence and love amongst different peoples, races and cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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