Tireless seeker of the essence
CultureThe 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 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."
She has gone from being a self-taught student to directing a work that educates thousands of children in Pakistan. From the Meeting, the story of the winner of the Global Teacher Prize 2023.
The Holy Father's words at a meeting with authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, during his trip to Asia and Oceania.
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.
The final press release of the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples and the title of the next edition to be held in Rimini, August 22-27, 2025.
We publish the greeting that the President of the Republic addressed to the people at the Rimini Meeting.
“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).
From volunteers to visitors who cross the threshold of the Rimini Fair: “Every time it is an opportunity to get to the bottom of a unique proposal aimed at everyone.” The general director of the Foundation, Emmanuele Forlani, talks about the Meeting.
The pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Black Madonna as an experience of conversion and unity. Within the discovery that the goal of life is holiness, a gift to be asked for with a simple heart.
The appeal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, to prayer for peace in the Holy Land on the day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
An economy at the service of the common good, the educational and cultural challenge, the testimonies of those who seek peace even where conflicts rage. Bernhard Scholz speaks about the 2024 edition of the Meeting.
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 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
Davide Prosperi's message to the high-school graduates, undergraduates and recent graduates of Communion and Liberation on pilgrimage to the Polish shrine.
The mystery of the human and their search for the essence are the threads that unite the exhibitions in Rimini from August 20 to 25. Alessandra Vitez presents contents and itineraries of the 2024 edition.
An excerpt from Davide Prosperi's Preface to the new book of Fr. Giussani, Una rivoluzione di sé. La vita come comunione (1968-1970)" [A Revolution of Self. Life as Communion (1968-1970)]
From Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's journey to the Holy Land to St. Francis, art films, Bach, a Music Contest... Artistic director Otello Cenci discusses the program that will animate the Rimini Meeting this year.
Paris, Munich, Oxford, Madrid, Vienna, Tokyo, Santiago de Chile... An increasing number of meetings and exhibitions. The story of the two Japanese newlyweds has touched thousands of people. What is it about them that is so interesting to us today?
“Anticipation of vacation is evidence of the will to live; for just this reason it must not be ‘vacation’ from oneself. Then summer will not be an interruption or a postponement of taking life seriously.”
If life is totally given, even a person deprived of everything can never be a slave to any lie. The relevance of the lesson of Aleksandr Solženicyn quoted by Fr. Giussani in the eighth chapter of The Religious Sense.
A group of friends' pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the Archbishop of Bologna, Matteo Zuppi. Like going to “visit a friend who is sick. And we leave enriched. Peace begins with us.”