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Colum McCann (Photo: Meeting Rimini)

Tireless seeker of the essence

CultureAlessandro 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."

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

The Pope in Indonesia: A church that unites all

ChurchLeonardus 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 Events

“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).

The meeting dedicated to the volunteers at the 2023 edition (Photo: Meeting Rimini)

Towards the Meeting: "What gives meaning to everything"

Current EventsMatteo Rigamonti

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.

A moment of the pilgrimage to Czestochowa (Photo: Tommaso Prinetti)

Czestochowa: A "yes" like Mary's

Current EventsSofia Polini

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.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins (Photo: Ansa/Vatican Media)

"A glimpse of light for the whole world"

Current Events

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

Bernhard Scholz (Photo: Meeting Rimini)

Towards the Meeting: In search of the essence

CultureMaria Acqua Simi

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.

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

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

CultureStephen 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

Traces: A life that is written down

CultureAlessandra 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

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.

Visitors to a Meeting exhibition (Photo: Meeting Rimini)

Towards the Meeting: Mosaics of humanity

CultureMatteo Rigamonti

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.

Fr. Luigi Giussani (Photo: Archive Fraternity of CL)

"Adhere to Christ, build the church"

Current EventsDavide Prosperi

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)]

Otello Cenci, head of shows at the Rimini Meeting (Photo: Rimini Meeting)

The essential on stage: the shows at the Rimini Meeting

CultureMatteo Rigamonti

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.

Takashi Paolo Nagai

Takashi and Midori's "flowering hillside"

ChurchPaola Marenco and Gabriele Di Comite*

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?

(Photo: Unsplash/Colin Moldenhauer)

Vacations, the time of freedom

Current Events

“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.”

Aleksandr Solženicyn (Photo: Ansa/Archivio/Michael Estafiev/Drn)

What no power can take from us

CultureAdriano Dell'Asta

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.

During the pilgrimage

The Courage to Return

ChurchGianni Varani

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.”