{"id":383874,"date":"2025-07-14T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=383874"},"modified":"2025-07-16T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:32:42","slug":"16-july-margaret-karrams-message-on-the-day-of-the-pact-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/16-july-margaret-karrams-message-on-the-day-of-the-pact-of-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"16 July: Margaret Karram\u2019s message on the day of the Pact of Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 16th of July is a significant day for the Focolare Movement. In fact, it is the anniversary of the Pact of Unity between Chiara Lubich, foundress of the Movement, and Igino Giordani, whom she considered a co-founder. It took place on the 16th of July 1949.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this anniversary, Margaret Karram, President of the Focolare Movement, addressed the following message to all those who belong to the Movement around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/EN_16luglio.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1414\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/EN_16luglio.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-383994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/EN_16luglio.png 1414w, https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/EN_16luglio-1280x1810.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1414px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-52906e95bd5f551a93ea7ba3764c61d2\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>To learn more about the origin and the significance of the Pact of Unity,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WsCki5W0ueM&amp;feature=youtu.be\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WsCki5W0ueM&amp;feature=youtu.be\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:182px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when humanity is threatened by increasing violence and despair, that Pact can instil a new hope in us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":383907,"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":[3166],"tags":[3349,3196],"class_list":["post-383874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-margaret-karram-en","tag-notifiche-en","tag-ppg-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383874","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=383874"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384044,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383874\/revisions\/384044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}