The Prayers for Unity will be held online at 17:50 for 18:00 UK time on every 2nd Monday of the month. Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone else who would like to participate.
Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you (Jn 21:17)
Come and share the adventure of the Mariapolis.
Explore how we can put the dream of a united world into action in our everyday lives.
In 2025, all Christian Churches celebrate Easter on the same day. Margaret Karram, President of the Focolare Movement, extends her Easter greetings, joined by representatives from various Churches.
Maria Voce, President of the Focolare Movement, sends her Easter greetings: to experience a continuous passing from death to resurrection through love of neighbour. Only in this way will we overcome this painful time of pandemic and other suffering.
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“This year for many Christians the days of Holy Week and Easter – which the Western Churches celebrate on April 12, while the Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Churches celebrate on April 19 – will be a special experience because the coronavirus pandemic will prevent them from participating physically in the liturgical celebrations. In the following text that Chiara Lubich wrote during Holy Week in 2000, she suggested how to live these “holy days”.
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Their live streaming sessions from Loppiano keep alive the hope that fraternity can reach everywhere. Their new single is coming out any day now.
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Gen Verde live streaming from Loppiano… #distantimauniti
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We’re living in extraordinary times, it’s something that’s never happened before and it obliges us to review our lives. The Coronavirus has caused a crisis in the things we felt sure about, our habits, relationships, the way we live, the economy; it has caused a worldwide pandemic with thousands of deaths. But we are also witnessing an outpouring of heroic gestures.
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Images, impressions and testimonies of some of the 44 Genfest held in different countries around the world. First part: Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Egypt, Jordan. Second part: Slovakia and Korea.
Genfest 2024, an international event promoted by the young people of the Focolare Movement, took place in Brazil in July and was attended by over 4,000 young people. Phase 1. Phases 2 and 3.
In this short excerpt, Chiara, in answering a question on the relationship with other religions, reveals the secret to building true universal fraternity: seeking what unites us in diversity.
The international interreligious conference “One Human Family”, promoted by the Focolare Movement, has just concluded with a pilgrimage of fraternity to Assisi.
Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe
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It will come as no surprise that due to the COVID-19 crisis it will not be possible to gather together for Mariapolis this year. But we still want to come together.
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Many of us were worried whether the weekend for couples, organised by the Focolare Movement in The Centre for Unity in Welwyn Garden City on 14-15th March would be able to go ahead.
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