{"id":342620,"date":"2013-12-20T04:15:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T03:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/youth-for-a-united-world-christmas-of-mutual-welcome-and-peace\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:11:16","slug":"youth-for-a-united-world-christmas-of-mutual-welcome-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/youth-for-a-united-world-christmas-of-mutual-welcome-and-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth for a United World: Christmas of mutual welcome and peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-98237\" style=\"border: 0px;margin: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131220NataleTerrasanta1-250x118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"118\" \/>Christmas in Bethlehem!<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s a unique opportunity to crown this year through our meeting with the Holy Land <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/movimento-dei-focolari\/un-popolo\/giovani-per-un-mondo-unito\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youth for a United World<\/a>\u201d, shared Maria Guaita, Andrew Camilleri and Claudia Barrero, from the <strong>Y4UW<\/strong> international secretariat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What significance does it have for you to spend Christmas in the Holy Land?<\/strong> We have welcomed this invitation as a proposal to all the Youth for a United World spread all over the planet \u2013 narrates Maria Guaita -. The Gospel narrates that Mary and Joseph found no inn to lodge: \u201cthe Word came to his own and his own people did not accept him.\u201d We wish to welcome him especially in the lonely ones, the marginalized, the poor and the homeless. Therefore, we commit ourselves to transform each of our cities into a small Bethlehem that hosts the nativity crib that offers a cradle to baby Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>How have you organized this activity?<\/strong> \u201cWe propose to all the Youth for a United World a <strong>Christmas that is characterized by mutual welcome and peace.<\/strong> On daily basis, the mass media offer us images of violence and suffering, exclusion, and we want to respond to this with an even greater love: taking advantage of this Christmas Season to carry out concrete acts of love in favour of our brothers and sisters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We wish to get as many people as possible involved in this initiative \u2013 concludes Maria \u2013 also parishes, institutions, other associations and movements, according to each one\u2019s creativity and possibilities \u2013 as Chiara Lubich used to say \u2013 \u201cnothing is small that is done out of love\u201d.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One may post photos or short films of these initiatives on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Y4UW.HOLYLAND?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cYouth for a United World &#8211; Holy Land<\/a>\u201d Facebook Page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll these fragments of fraternity \u2013 adds Claudia -, will give witness and document an important step in the fulfilment of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedworldproject.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>United World Project<\/strong><\/a>\u201d, thus paving the way to universal brotherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giovaniperunmondounito.blogspot.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youth for a United World<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transform each city into a small Bethlehem, capable of welcoming the lonely ones, the marginalized, the poor, the homeless: this is an initiative that the Youth for a United World are carrying out in their own cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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-342620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342620","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}