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\u2018One day, in Aleppo, the rebels came to the district where a lot of us live<\/strong>. At that moment we were chatting on Facebook. Worry, anger\u2026 we all had different feelings. One, full of fear wrote, \u201cYou see, even God is against us.\u201d \u201cNo, He is crying with us.\u201d \u201cBut these people have ruined my life.\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s try to love them too.\u201d \u201cBut how?\u201d \u201cBy praying that they find love as well.\u201d<\/p>\n In the end we accepted the challenge to love<\/strong> even those who were hurting us.<\/p>\n \u2018To tell the truth,\u2019 writes Mira from Aleppo, \u2018I didn\u2019t always manage to live the Ideal of unity the way I would like to. All the hate around me managed almost to get into my heart, but it didn\u2019t win. I got to the point that my view of life was really pessimistic. I asked myself: how was Chiara Lubich able to live in the middle of the war when the Movement began? But then I said to myself, \u201cIf she could do it, then maybe I can too. This made we want to carry on, to start again. Sometimes I feel that we have to try and live as Jesus would in our place in Syria, which is why we are trying to help other people, even though we may only be able to do it in small ways.<\/p>\n \u2018I would like to ask everyone to pray because, believe me, your prayers give us a lot of strength. I hope that none of you goes through dark moments like these and sees what we see. I\u2019m sorry I\u2019ve written so little, I\u2019m trying to write quickly before the electricity goes off. Let\u2019s ask the Lord to give us peace in our hearts.\u2019<\/p>\n This chain of prayer already involves people across the world. It is the \u2018Time Out<\/a>\u2019, which takes place at 12 noon every day wherever people are. The idea came just before the First World Supercongress (1987), the big get-together of Youth for Unity<\/a>. It was suggested by a young basketball player.<\/p>\n Chiara Lubich<\/a> liked the idea so much that during the Gulf War she asked for \u2018permission\u2019 to use it for a chorus of prayer for peace. In December 2012 Maria Voce<\/a> suggested it again, saying, \u2018Only God can satisfy humanity\u2019s need for peace. We have to have a truly powerful prayer\u2026 with renewed faith that God can do it, that if we ask in unity God will satisfy our need.\u2019<\/p>\n Source: Gen 3<\/em> magazine, no. 1\/2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Messages from some of the younger Focolare members in Syria.<\/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-341792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341792","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=341792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}