{"id":393065,"date":"2025-12-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=393065"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:56:23","slug":"baby-jesus-is-back-at-the-heart-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/baby-jesus-is-back-at-the-heart-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Jesus is back at the heart of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in 1997, the initiative \u2018They have evicted Jesus\u2019 originates from a reflection by Chiara Lubich, foundress of the Focolare Movement, who, struck by the absence of any reference to the true meaning of Christmas, invited people to bring Jesus back to the heart of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All over the world, thousands of Gen 4 \u2013 the children of the Focolare Movement \u2013 have responded to this appeal and every year they produce small plaster statues of the baby Jesus, which are then given to people passing by on street corners during the Christmas period. The donations received are used for projects aimed at those children who are in need or who live in countries at war in various parts of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baby Jesus is back at the heart of Christmas\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TsgnAAeXA40?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:188px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1997, the initiative \u2018They have evicted Jesus\u2019 originates from a reflection by Chiara Lubich, foundress of the Focolare Movement, who, struck by the absence of any reference to the true meaning of Christmas, invited people to bring Jesus back to the heart of it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":393064,"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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2874,3286],"tags":[4202,3612,3349,3196],"class_list":["post-393065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nuove-generazioni-2","category-testimonianze-di-vita-en","tag-hanno-sloggiato-gesu","tag-natale-en","tag-notifiche-en","tag-ppg-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393065","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=393065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393079,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393065\/revisions\/393079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}