{"id":292662,"date":"2011-08-21T22:19:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T20:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/brussels-together-for-europe-2012\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:43:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:43:45","slug":"brussels-together-for-europe-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/brussels-together-for-europe-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels: Together for Europe 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Brussels 2012<\/strong>. A symbolic site, the seat of important institutions of the European Union, an important date \u2013 a European Year of Solidarity Among Generations. Brussels 2012 is also the next step in the free assembly of movements and communities who, while maintaining their own autonomy, occasionaly act together for common goals, offering the contribution of their own charisms and spiritualities. This journey began on 31 October 1999 and was entitled \u201cTogether for Europe\u201d. \u00a0Today it has become a network involving more than 250 movements and Christian communities: Catholics, Evangelicals, Anglicans, Orthodox, members of free churches and Pentecostal communities. They work together for the common good of the continent, as an accompaniment to the path of reconciliation that has been set forth. (10 years for Europe http:\/\/vimeo.com\/25805381) Many events are planned for 2012 in many European cities, both in preparation for the events in Brussels and simultaneous to the events. For more information go to www.together4europe.org<\/a> where you will also find many documents and the history of \u201cTogether for Europe\u201d. Especially worthy of mention are the two major events in Stuttgart in 2004 and 2007 with their keynote addresses, known to history as the 7 SI\u2019<\/strong><\/a>.

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Stuttgart 2004 - Chiara Lubich with Evmenios Tamiolakis<\/p><\/div> An internet link will connect cities involved in the events into a single multi-event spread throughout different countries. Objective: to show what the various charisms do for the good of society<\/strong> – as Francesco Maria Greco, Italian ambassador to the Holy See pointed out during a meeting for diplomats\u00a0 held at the international headquarters of the Focolare in early June (https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/it\/news\/2011\/06\/09\/diplomazia-internazionale-a-confronto-con-wojtyla-e-chiara-lubich\/<\/a>); and to witness the presence of a unifying force that lives within Europe, despite the diversity of individual people and groups. The Young for Unity<\/strong> have proposed coinciding the Run for Unity<\/strong> event \u2013 the celebrated Relay for World Peace \u2013 with the Brussels 2012 date, offering to youths of different movments in several areas an opportunity to collaborate with each other for this event. Meanwhile the Together for Europe working group, <\/strong>which is comprised of represenatives from different movements, recently met with Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for the Unity of Christians. His esteem for the Movements emerged, which he described as a \u201cgarden of flowers\u201d and he is expected to be one of the guests at the events in Brussels. Maria Voce<\/strong>, president of the Focolare Movement will also attend. In preparation for the events in Strasbourg, there will also be a meeting of the Political Movement for Unity for European parliamentary, which is entitled \u201cEurope and Dialogue. A Political Value for a Globalized World.\u201d To know more about Together for Europe 2012: http:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/it\/insieme-per-l-europa-2012.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get in on the preparations for the 12th of May 2012 appointment involving European Christian Movements on several fronts, from politics to social issues, from young families to ecumenical and interfaith peace efforts.<\/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":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292662","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=292662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}