{"id":342228,"date":"2013-09-01T04:10:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T02:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-importance-of-love-of-neighbour-in-achieving-peace\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:10:08","slug":"the-importance-of-love-of-neighbour-in-achieving-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-importance-of-love-of-neighbour-in-achieving-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of love of neighbour in achieving peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chiara to a meeting of Muslims and Christians &quot;Some characteristics of love of neighbor&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/72277009?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Chiara Lubich Centre<\/p>\n<p>As some Middle Eastern countries \u2013 with faithful of different religions \u2013 are going through difficult moments, we offer a talk by Chiara Lubich which she delivered during a meeting of Chrisitans and Muslim friends of the Focolare. It was November 1, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The title was: \u201cSome characterstics of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/spiritualita-dellunita\/amore-al-fratello\/\">love for neighbor<\/a>.\u201dFrom the first words we become aware of the deep brotherly relationship among the numerous listeners, a strong and timely testimony of a friendship between Christians and Muslims that is not only possible, but already a reality among many who are living in those conflicted lands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDearest brothers and sisters, it is with great joy that I welcome you. May the Lord bless this gathering and grant that it produce finest fruit.\u201d These were the opening words of Chiara as she greeted her joyful audience.<\/p>\n<p>She began her presentation by offering her own experience of the encounter with God, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chiara-lubich\/spiritualita-dellunita\/dio-amore\/\">God who is Love<\/a> and who urges us to love our brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n<p>She strongly underscored that love for neighbour, composed of mercy, benevolence, compassion, solidarity and charity. . . \u201cis of utmost importance if we wish to create that brotherhood that the world is in such need of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the video: <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/72277009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L\u2019amore al prossimo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiara Lubich to Christians and Muslims gathered in Castelgandolfo, Italy, in 2002: \u201cThe importance of love of neighbour in creating brotherhood\u201d<\/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_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342228","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=342228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}