Current Events - 2024 - Page 3

 John Kinder with his oldest friends from Piazzale Corvetto (Milan), in Rome in 2015, to see Pope Francis.

An ordinary story of everday miracles

Current EventsJohn Kinder

At the International Assembly of Responsibles held in Italy in August, John Kinder gave a testimony on his encounter with CL and the life of the Movement in Australia. This was part of an evening of testimonies with the theme ‘Mission and presence’.

Earl K Fernandes (Photo: Columbuscatholic.org)

Earl Fernandes: The joy of being disciples

Current EventsEarl Kenneth Fernandes

The youngest bishop in the United States, serving in the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio, recounts his encounter with the movement and his choice of the episcopal motto “Veni per Mariam”.

Kenya: The greatest revolution

Current EventsStefano Filippi

The youth protests and violence last June, a provocation that has raised many questions and a common judgement, in a flyer signed by the CL university students in Kenya.

(Photo: Unsplash/Hannah Cauhepe)

Evil and the love that saves

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The Paderno Dugnano tragedy and the questions it opens: “The problem is not to educate them in a way of life, but to educate them to ask why we live and what we live for.” The Communion and Liberation flyer.

Anba Ermia at the Rimini Meeting (Photo: Archivio Meeting)

Egypt: Ties that transform

Current EventsLuca Fiore

“Without forgiveness hatred and enmity grow. St. Paul, however, teaches us that one can change evil into good.” Anba Ermia, Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, talks about himself and the road to coexistence.

This and the other images accompanying the article (reproduced here in some details) are part of Vasantha Yogananthan's special project Fleuve Fauve, made in 2016/17 photographing people and the seasons along the Loire (© Vasantha Yogananthan)

Education. All within a gaze

Current EventsFranco Nembrini and Matteo Severgnini

The crisis of an entire generation. The fear of adults. And the path to a “total” and “living” educational relationship. From the September issue of Tracce, notes from a dialogue with Franco Nembrini and Matteo Severgnini.

Colum McCann (Photo: Meeting Rimini)

Tireless seeker of the essence

Current EventsAlessandro Banfi

The great writer Colum McCann was a guest speaker at this year's Meeting. Stories like those of Israeli Rami and Palestinian Bassam “help us tell the story of light even in the darkness of contradictions."

The Aic BookCorner (Photo" Meeting Rimini)

Twenty minutes of emotion

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A Russian lady who has known the Meeting for some time is at the fair for Navalny's book presentation. Thanks to a borrowed smartphone she is able to listen to the live broadcast. Then the tears: “Here you are talking about my country.

Pope Francis in Indonesia (Photo: Ansa/Alessandro Di Meo)

The Pope in Indonesia: A church that unites all

Current EventsLeonardus Mali

Both a diplomatic and an apostolic visit, during which two words have emerged clearly: “dialogue” and “reconciliation.” A priest from the CL community in Indonesia comments on Francis' trip to Asia and Oceania.

Working at the Pre-Meeting (Photo: Meeting Rimini)

Meeting 2024: The Pope's message

Current EventsPope Francis

“Today it is essential to stop and ask ourselves: is there something worth living and hoping for?” Holy Father Francis' words on the occasion of the XLV Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples (Rimini, August 20-25, 2024).

Pro Terra Sancta volunteers serving the most fragile (Photo: Giovanni Dinatolo)

Lebanon: The art of building peace

Current EventsAlberto Perrucchini

The economic and political crisis and the threat of a new violent escalation. Yet at the Franciscan Convent in Tripoli, help continues to be offered to all. The report of the meeting a few weeks ago with Fr. Toufiq and Fr. Quirico.

Traces: A life that is written down

Current EventsAlessandra Stoppa

The magazine of the movement is turning fifty and will be celebrated at the Rimini Meeting with a dedicated booth and a series of live meetings with friends and witnesses of its history. And with all its readers

James Arthur Baldwin (Photo: Allan Warren via Wikimedia Commons)

James Baldwin: It’s up to the life in you

Current EventsStephen G. Adubato

The absence of the father, the scandal of racial hatred, questions about evil, and the structural need for God: A portrait one hundred years from his birth of the American writer James Baldwin, one of the most voice of his era. From August Traces

The arrival at the Shrine during one of the past pilgrimages (Photo: Fraternity CL)

Częstochowa: the burst of freedom

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

Davide Prosperi's message to the high-school graduates, undergraduates and recent graduates of Communion and Liberation on pilgrimage to the Polish shrine.

Anna with her daughter Elisa

"Elisa and the certainty of being loved"

Current EventsAnna Polini

A large family, a disabled daughter and the path within the movement. Anna recounted her story at the vacation of the Lombardy leaders of the movement.