The Chicago leg of Maria Voce’s US tour, April 9: A visit to Mariapolis Centre in the Hyde Park neighborhood and a meeting with about 300 young people. The youth who organised the event dedicated it to sainthood: a possible goal even in today’s society.

When you arrive in Chicago from the East Coast you immediately realise that you’re in another world.

The city runs along Lake Michigan for 50 km. Despite our night-time arrival at Midway Airport, the urban skyline of modern, lit-up skyscrapers was truly striking.

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Teenagers and young adults are invited to join in an immersion of the life, light, and love of Blessed Chiara Luce Badano, an Italian teenager who lived a brief but intense life full of charity and hope, through a variety of song, dance, and audio visuals hosted by the Youth for a United World of the Midwest.

April 9, 2011, 5:30pm CST (Sunday Mass celebrated at 4pm)
North Riverside Village Hall (2401 S Des Plaines Ave, North Riverside IL - MAP)
Pizza & Fellowship @ 7pm

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Muslim and Christian Youth working together for the Homeless

Fifty years ago it would not have happened.  During Christmas, 2010 Muslim young people from the Ephraim Bahar Cultural Center and Christian youth of the Focolare Movement engaged in an interreligious experience of “dialogue of life.” Living out together one of the principal tenets of both religions—to recognize the presence of God the poor—we demonstrated how the world can be changed for the better.