{"id":307768,"date":"2021-02-04T16:20:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/election-of-the-councilors-a-world-team\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:41:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:41:59","slug":"election-of-the-councilors-a-world-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/election-of-the-councilors-a-world-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Election of the Councilors: A world team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Diary No.11 of the General Assembly 4<sup>th<\/sup> February<\/strong>  Between yesterday and today the 22 new general councilors of the Focolare have been elected. They come from 16 countries and 4 continents, their ages range from 52 -70 and they truly represent the multiculturality that is a characteristic of the Focolare Movement. Many of them have lived in various geographical areas besides their country of origin, an important factor for getting to know in depth, the characteristics, needs and challenges of the many countries in which those who identify themselves in the Focolare\u2019s message of unity, are living.  At the opening of the voting for the councilors Margaret Karram said: \u201dLet us ask for the Holy Spirit so that we can be guided only by him\u201d; in fact this is only the first step towards the composition of the new \u201cCenter of the Movement\u201d. Shortly, the newly elected President will distribute their specific tasks to each one.  The intense work of today was concluded with a session dedicated to the presentation and approval of various proposals. Tomorrow the work will continue in plenary with sessions of dialogue on the plans and directions for the next 6 years.  In the meantime, let\u2019s get to know the names of the newly elected councilors and where they come from. <\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"479\"><strong><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-240043 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/5-604x340.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"284\" \/><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Women Councilors<\/strong> Cuneo Chiara (Italy) Escandell Silvia (Argentina) Gomez Margarita (Spain) Kempt Donna Lynn (USA) Kobayashi Renata (Japan) Koller Friederike (Germany) Moussallem Rita (Lebanon) Ngabo Bernadette (Dem. Rep. Congo) Sanze Genevieve (Central African Republic) Simon Renata (Germany) Zanolin Clara (Italy)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"479\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-240044 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/6-604x340.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"282\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Men Councilors<\/strong> Asprer Ray (Philippines) Bartol Angel (Spain) Battiston Ruperto (Italy) Bruschke Klaus (Brazil) Canzani Francisco (Uruguay) Dijkema Enno (Holland) Kenfack Etienne (Cameroon) Salimbeni Antonio (Italy) Schwind Joachim (Germany) St-Hilaire Marc (Canada) Valtr Vit (Czechia)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p> <em>Focolare Communications Office<\/em>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/General-Assembly-Diary-11-4-February-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Text in PDF<\/a>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diary No.11 of the General Assembly 4th February Between yesterday and today the 22 new general councilors of the Focolare have been elected. They come from 16 countries and 4 continents, their ages range from 52 -70 and they truly represent the multiculturality that is a characteristic of the Focolare Movement. Many of them have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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-307768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307768","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}