Youth

May 10–16 is World Unity Week,an initiative of Youth for a United World

The activities carried on around the world by the Youth for a United World are like a mosaic of fraternal love, where they try to live out the full meaning of ‘love.’ They explain how the word ‘fraternal’ tries to convey a sense of human equality and brotherhood.

Perspectives of the U.S. changed by an Italian student

It amounts to an educational emergency: how can we pass on values that endure to teens?

More than 100,000 young people participated in sports and social programs during the worldwide relay.

In 1998, in an international meeting for children ages 4–9, one of the young participants asked Chiara Lubich, “I want to become like Jesus. What can I do?” Chiara showed them a cube with a different Gospel-based message on each surface

Chiara Lubich invites youth worldwide to break through to the light

Children of Baby Boomers have their unique way of doing things. What impact will they have on the world?

Returning from a Focolare meeting in Toronto, Hara “Res” Kim lost her life in a tragic car accident. Though saddened by her death, we continue rejoicing at who she was, and is, for us.

Many of us can relate to her experience as life pulls us in many directions and can overwhelm us. Reading her story, I realized what a source of strength and truth the spirituality of unity is.

Sometimes it can be most difficult to love those closest to us, like the members of our own family, for example. Joanna, a college student, recently shared just such an experience with me