{"id":393930,"date":"2026-01-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=393930"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:04:10","slug":"margaret-karram-citta-nuova-an-important-instrument-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/margaret-karram-citta-nuova-an-important-instrument-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Karram: \u201cCitt\u00e0 Nuova\u201d, an important instrument of change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2026 will mark the <strong>70th anniversary of the founding of the Citt\u00e0 Nuova magazine<\/strong>. It was the <strong>14th of July 1956<\/strong> when, in Fiera di Primiero in northern Italy, during a summer meeting of the Focolare Movement called Mariapolis, the foundress and first president of the Focolare Movement, <strong>Chiara Lubich<\/strong>, had the idea of creating a \u201cnewsletter\u201d so that all the participants could keep in contact. <\/p>\n\n<p>Since then, thousands of publications have followed, and Citt\u00e0 Nuova has always been committed to looking at the facts, reading and exploring current events from the perspective of universal fraternity. It is committed to dialogue on uncomfortable issues, to be close to the most fragile and the forgotten, to build bridges, to be present in the wounds of humanity, to highlight seeds of peace and hope, with a global horizon that looks towards a united world. <\/p>\n\n<p>As the Movement spread throughout the world, editions were launched in different countries. Today there are 32 editions in 21 languages, both in print and online. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Margaret Karram<\/strong>, President of the Focolare Movement, addressed a video message on the 7th of January 2026 in which she stated that &#8220;today, faced with the terrible threats of our time \u2013 wars, polarisation of all kinds, environmental crises, an economy often based on exploitation, ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence \u2013 <em>Citt\u00e0 Nuova<\/em> still and always chooses dialogue:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>it chooses peace as a difficult but essential pursuit,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>it chooses to believe that every encounter, every thought, every word can contribute to changing the direction of the world.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Here is the complete video message. <strong>Activate the subtitles and choose the language you desire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\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=\"Rivista Citt\u00e0 Nuova, importante strumento di cambiamento\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IxJgoJ57z_8?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<p><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:86px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Cover photo: The first issue of Citt\u00e0 Nuova is published, 14 July 1956. \u00a9 CSC Audiovisual Archive <\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:133px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Focolare Movement sends a message for the 70th anniversary of the Citt\u00e0 Nuova magazine, \u201ca voice that over the years has attracted, inspired and transformed the lives of thousands of people\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":393929,"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":[3652,3366,3349,3196],"class_list":["post-393930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-margaret-karram-en","tag-citta-nuova-en","tag-margaret-karram-en","tag-notifiche-en","tag-ppg-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393930","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=393930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393931,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393930\/revisions\/393931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}