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<\/a>\u00a9Osservatore Romano – Pope Francis welcomed Maria Voce and Giancarlo Faletti<\/p><\/div> At the end of the audience Maria Voce<\/a> said, \u201cA conversation with familiar tones. We could see the great importance the Pope gives to a Christian life of commitment and communion\u201d. The president of the Focolare Movement continued to say, \u201c The life of the Gospel is of particular importance to him. He encouraged us to keep going ahead with joy, because a Christian without joy will not attain anything.So, a Christianity of commitment, communion and joy\u201d. This meeting provided an opportunity to present the Focolare Movement and its initiatives in different parts of the world,<\/a> highlighting its specific contribution in different places. Maria Voce said, \u201cPope Francis thanked us for the work of the Move ment all over the world\u201d. They were able to speak about the various aspects of the Movement\u2019s commitments:from its material and spiritual capillary action in favour of families and youth in many places in Syria <\/a>to its cultural initiatives promoted in China; from its interreligious dialogue<\/a> with Buddhists, Muslims and Jews to its involvement in the project \u201cAmazzonia\u201d<\/a> launched by the Brazilian Episcopal Conference for the evangelization of this vast area; from the testimony of forgiveness and reconciliation in various African <\/a>countries struck by war to the revitalization of fraternal relationships in anonymous districts of various metropolis in the West, to the enterprising initiatives in the social sphere, such as the Economy of Communion<\/a>. \u00a9 Pope Francis welcomed Maria Voce<\/p><\/div> When speaking about their latest visit to Jordan<\/a>, where they met the Focolare Communities of the Middle East and North Africa, Maria Voce shared with the Pope the experience of those days of tension and uncertainty. Even there, on September 7, the members of the Movement present in Amman and belonging to various churches and religions lived the day of fasting and prayers for peace. \u201c One could feel the Pope\u2019s open-heartedness and his great desire to embrace all humanity through this prayer,\u201d commented Maria Voce. \u201cAnd the Middle East was present in this embrace\u201d. Maria Voce concluded: \u201cThe Pope\u2019s words made us realize how much he appreciates the Movements. When speaking of any situation, he remarked on how important it is that the movements sustain these situations. You can see that the Pope recognizes their ability to put the radicalness of the Gospel in the foreground\u201d. Press Release<\/a> See Rome Reports’ account of the meeting and YouTube video<\/a> http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Uy26LWfjEoQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 13th September, Pope Francis received in audience Maria Voce, the president of the Focolare Movement, and Giancarlo Faletti, co-president.<\/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-342288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342288","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=342288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>