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“We had only one reason for coming here, to be near to you, to be close to the community in this land.  We came with only one desire: to bring hope, to bring all the prayers and all the unity of all the members of the Focolare Movement throughout the world.” This is how Margaret…

On Thursday, October 24, about 300 people gathered at the Terra Santa College in Bethlehem for the official opening of “TogetherWEconnect,” a project aimed at forming young leaders in schools located in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, and in the surrounding areas. The goal is to promote active citizenship and a culture of caring, inclusiveness, sharing and…

  October 2024 – A three-year initiative that the Focolare Movement in the Holy Land launched on 25 October. At the theatre of the Terra Sancta College in Bethlehem: the ‘Together We Connect’ project, a new ray of hope in light of the challenges facing the region. The project brings together five schools in Jerusalem…

More than 100 of us, mainly from Bethlehem, Beit Sahour, Beit Jala and Jerusalem, but also with a representation from Ramallah and Galilee, gathered at Talitha Kumi, in Beit Jala for a meeting entitled Mariapolis, “City of Mary,’ from July 6-7, 2024.  An annual meeting, but also the result of a desire to respond to…

  July 2024 – The Focolare Movement, a Catholic movement founded in Italy in the 1940s, organised the meeting of the Mariapolis, i.e. ‘City of Mary’. The aim was to meet and live the values of unity, love and peace, and responded to the appeal of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa. The…

Mar. 2024 – “Called and Sent“: this was the theme that approximately 80 families, youth and children from Galilee wanted to deepen together on March 15-16 in Tiberias, on the shores of the Lake, that very Lake that had witnessed the calling and sending forth of the apostles and the public mission of Jesus. This…

March 2023 – From Friday, March 24th to Sunday, March 26th, 2023, the communities and friends of the Focolare in the Holy Land gathered in Jericho to experience three days of meeting in preparation for Easter. The participants, about 160 of all ages, came from various locations: Bethlehem, Gaza, Jerusalem, Haifa, Jenin, Nazareth, Ramallah, etc.…

Oct. 2022 – This is one of the pages from the diary of Irene, a young editor of Teens, a magazine of the Città Nuova publishing group, which is made by teenagers for teenagers. Through her eyes and her words we learn of a journey in a country marked by divisions and we get to…

  Sept. 2022 – Its name means “miracle of the peoples” or “sign for the peoples” as we read in the prophet Isaiah (Is 11:10). In Nes Ammim, a village of Christian origin in northern Israel, dialogue and coexistence among people of different peoples, faiths, religions and cultures is the norm. An ideal location to…

  July 2022 – Last July 8 and 9, the Latin parish of Taybeh hosted the Focolare Movement’s “Mariapolis” in the Holy Land. This is the name of the most characteristic event of the Movement founded by Chiara Lubich, which since its beginnings gathered for a few days those who wanted to know the spirit…