The launch of a shared hope
Presentations from the “Together for Jerusalem” seminar now accessible online The city of Jerusalem has a troubled history like few others and even recently has passed through difficult moments between the pandemic and eruptions of violence. Yet, paradoxically,...
Switzerland
"28-08-2019: Good morning! We are a group of young people (between 20-25 years old) from Switzerland and take part in the Focolare Movement. With interest we saw your project when it was broadcasted on the Collegamento CH earlier this year. As a group, we have been...
Århus (Denmark) 11-04-2019
"Last Saturday, 6th of April we had a meeting in a group that lives the spirituality of unity in Århus, a town in Denmark. They want to do something concrete together to help our movement, and therefore they have decided to give money each time they meet for the...
“Together …Seeds of Peace”
“The nigh was sealed by mutual hospitality and of benevolence among the adherents of this initiative, because already here, and not only in the Holy Land, a model of a united society in the spirit of universal fraternity: ‘Together… Seeds of Peace’ and hope.”
Transcending Boundaries: Chiara Lubich and the great Religions
Chiara Lubich and interreligious dialogue, a way to give a soul to globalisation. A video made by Collegamento CH for the world-wide link-up of the Focolare movement aired on June 13, 2020. Languages in Italian, French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and German....
Searching for Jerusalem’s Vocation Together
“Together for Jerusalem” was a seminar sponsored by the Focolare in the Holy Land together with the Sophia University Institute (Italy).The seminar gathered Jewish and Christian biblical experts to focus on the vocation of Jerusalem as seen in the Bible, thus setting a biblical foundation to the goals of the Focolare’s future International Center for Unity and Peace in Jerusalem.
“Chiara Lubich, City – World”
“Linked to Chiara’s visit in 1956 there is also the idea of having a physical place in Jerusalem that would testify that unity is possible. With time, this intuition became clearer in the project of an International Centre for Unity and Peace: it is a project that we are carrying out and that we hope to be able to realize soon. If there is a place where it makes sense to be a presence of unity, it is Jerusalem.”
Nasce il “Centro per l’unità e la pace”
Si trova al confine tra la parte ebraica e quella araba di Gerusalemme. Sarà un luogo di spiritualità, studio, dialogo e formazione per la Città Santa e per il mondo intero. Uno storico francese scrive che Gerusalemme non è di Gerusalemme, ma è una città-mondo, una...