{"id":393876,"date":"2026-01-09T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=393876"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:06:42","slug":"venezuela-a-message-of-unity-and-hope-from-the-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/venezuela-a-message-of-unity-and-hope-from-the-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: a message of unity and hope from the young people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>\u201cIn the midst of the darkness we are living through today in Venezuela, we remember that we are not alone. Under the roar of the bombs in 1943, Chiara Lubich discovered that there is an Ideal that nothing and no one can destroy: God loves us immensely.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>This is how the <strong><em>\u201cMessage of hope and unity\u201d<\/em><\/strong> begins. It was shared on the evening of 5th January by the Venezuelan <em>Gen <\/em>(the young people who adhere to the spirituality of the Focolare Movement), both those who live in Venezuela and those in other parts of the world. They met online to pray and to share how each one is living this critical time for the whole population, never forgetting the choice to love everyone. There was a strong sense of the need to face together what they described as a \u201csacred\u201d time: \u201cwe are not alone because we are supported by the prayer of all those who, from Venezuela and from all over the world, are asking for Peace.\u201d <\/p>\n\n<p>The message continues:<\/p>\n\n<p><em>\u201cToday fear wants to paralyze us, but the response is not hatred, rather unity. Chiara taught us that <\/em><em> <\/em><em>when<\/em><em> <\/em><em>everything collapses, the only thing that remains is Love. If we become \u201cone\u201d, if we look after one another and place God as our rock, fear loses its power. <\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Let\u2019s not be afraid. Let\u2019s make this moment an opportunity to: <\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>have full trust that God is our Father and does not abandon us, even when the outlook is difficult;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>become \u201cone\u201d: may the suffering of others be our own. Let\u2019s help one another, let\u2019s share the little or the much that we have and break down the walls of indifference; <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>be builders of peace: let our weapon be solidarity.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><em>If we remain united, Jesus is among us and wherever He is, light ultimately overcomes darkness.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Courage and trust!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\"><em>Edited by the Editorial Staff<\/em><br\/><em>Photo: View of the city of Caracas (Venezuela) \u00a9 Pixabay<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:163px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe do not feel alone because we are supported by the prayer of all those who, from Venezuela and from all over the world, are asking for Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":393875,"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":[2830,2874,3286],"tags":[4236,3349,4237,3196,2871],"class_list":["post-393876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-focolari-nel-mondo-2","category-nuove-generazioni-2","category-testimonianze-di-vita-en","tag-giovani-dei-focolari","tag-notifiche-en","tag-pace-e-riconciliazione","tag-ppg-en","tag-venezuela-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393876","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=393876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393877,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393876\/revisions\/393877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}