{"id":307910,"date":"2021-06-05T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/one-minute-for-peace\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:42:22","slug":"one-minute-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/one-minute-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"One minute for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On Tuesday 8<sup>th<\/sup> \u00a0June 2021 at 1 pm local time let\u2019s stop to pray for peace in the Holy Land, Myanmar and for the whole world, each according to their own tradition.<\/em>  <img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-242487 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/EN_UMPP2021_top-1-496x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"252\" \/>\u201cWith ONE MINUTE FOR PEACE 2021, on 8<sup>th<\/sup> June\u00a0 at 13.00 (local time) we invite everyone: Catholics, Christians of different denominations, believers of the many religions, men and women of good will, to get together to pray and work for peace all over the world, especially in Jerusalem, between Israelis and Palestinians and in Myanmar\u201d.  This is the appeal launched by the International Forum of Catholic Action (IFCA) together with the Catholic Action of Italy and of Argentina, the World Union of Catholic Women\u2019s Organizations (WUCWO) and other associations. The Focolare Movement adheres to this initiative and invites everyone to spiritually unite with this special moment.  It is a very significant date: 8<sup>th<\/sup> June, 2014 was the occasion of the \u201cInvocation for peace\u201d meeting, promoted by<strong> Pope Francis,<\/strong> together with the President of Israel<strong> Simon Peres<\/strong> and the President of the Palestinian Authority<strong> Ma<\/strong><strong>\u1e25<\/strong><strong> m\u016bd<\/strong><strong> \u02bf<\/strong><strong> Abb\u0101s &#8211; Abu Mazen<\/strong>, with the Patriarch of Constantinople<strong> Bartholomew I<\/strong> . <strong>Margaret Karram<\/strong> , current President of the Focolare, was also present and recited St. Francis of Assisi\u2019s prayer for peace.  Karram recalled the occasion in an interview with the Italian newspaper, \u201cAvvenire\u201d: \u201cI believe in the power of prayer because I have seen it in action many times, for example on \u00a08<sup>th<\/sup> June, 2014, when Pope Francis wanted that extraordinary moment which was \u201cthe invocation for peace\u201d in the Holy Land &#8211; (&#8230;) I had the privilege of reading the prayer for peace of St. Francis of Assisi. It was a very strong experience. One might ask: \u2018But what was this prayer for?\u2019 It was a bright point that we can continue to look at, because prayer &#8211; as the Guardian of the Holy Land said at the time &#8211; is not something that produces something, prayer generates. So we must continue to generate peace within our hearts first of all and with everyone else\u201d.  Since that historic date, every year on 8<sup>th<\/sup> \u00a0June, the International Catholic Action Forum holds the \u201cOne Minute for Peace\u201d to implore together, throughout the planet, for the end of every conflict. It\u2019s up to us. Let\u2019s get involved and spread this initiative to count more and more MINUTES FOR PEACE all over the world. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Lorenzo Russo<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <em>\u00a0<\/em>Info: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicactionforum.org\/un-minuto-por-la-paz-2021\/?lang=en#loaded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Catholic Action Forum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 8th \u00a0June 2021 at 1 pm local time let\u2019s stop to pray for peace in the Holy Land, Myanmar and for the whole world, each according to their own tradition.<\/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-307910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307910","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=307910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}