{"id":292420,"date":"2011-04-30T20:54:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T18:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/young-people-for-a-united-world-a-new-start\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:42:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:42:44","slug":"young-people-for-a-united-world-a-new-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/young-people-for-a-united-world-a-new-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Young People for a United World: a new start!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-200x200 wp-image-34827\" style=\"border: 0pt none;margin: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110502-01-200x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"128\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cOnly those crazy enough to think they can change the world can actually do it\u201d.<\/strong> This impression left by one of the participants of the 2011 YPUW Meeting gives us a clear idea of the feeling amongst the 500 young people present: Young People for a United World aren\u2019t about utopian dreams but follow an Ideal that\u2019s worth giving your life for!<\/p>\n<p>A general and intense joy was at the base of the meeting\u2019s festive atmosphere. Here are some of the many impressions left by the young people present: \u201c<strong>You need a huge heart to believe in this ideal<\/strong> but you\u2019ve helped me believe in it too\u201d, \u201cYou need only look at our faces to see that we are people who are now truly happy\u201d, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to radiate this light unto the whole world, I\u2019m going home with this one task in mind\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The morning before leaving for Rome to continue festivities at the prayer vigil in Circus Maximus and ceremonies in St. Peter\u2019s for Pope Wojtyla\u2019s beatification, the Meeting\u2019s program focused on the true nature of YPUW: <strong>a vision enlarged unto the whole world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Piero Coda, president of the University Institute Sophia <\/strong>(Loppiano, Florence), along with two of the institute\u2019s students, guided a reflection on the importance of dialogue in every situation. The three speakers underlined the importance of this dialogue for today\u2019s civilisations that, after centuries of separate development, are now called to interdependence, exchange and continuous dialogue. Piero Coda\u2019s following comment seemed emblematic: \u201cHistory is made by some prophetic figures who know how to illuminate man\u2019s actions, constantly guiding him towards new horizons. <strong>Those who build bridges daily, <\/strong>teaching the art of dialogue with their lives<strong>, are equally as fundamental to this process. You can be these bridge builders<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation of young people from the Japanese Buddhist movement <strong>Rissho Kosei-kai<\/strong> also participated in the Meeting. They presented their association which has had deep ties of friendship and dialogue with the Focolare for years; they spoke about collaboration for the Arms Down project, the activities they carried out last year in favour of nuclear disarmament and the recent activity to help victims of the Japanese earthquake. Their limpid words underlined how \u2018building bridges\u2019 between different movements, cultures and experiences brings about the most unexpected results.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the Meeting the young people from Rissho Kosei-kai said, \u201cAfter this exchange with YPUW we are more certain than ever that we are all different, but that using these differences to reach unity is an amazing experience!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Unity Week can be followed until 8th May 2001 on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mondounito.net\/\">www.mondounito.net<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young People for a United World held a three day meeting that concluded with the festivities for John Paul II\u2019s Beatification.<\/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-292420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292420","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=292420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}