LUMINOSA AWARD FOR UNITY 2012

NEARLY 1 MILLION SERVED: 45 YEARS DEDICATED TO DIGNIFYING IMMIGRATION

Award recognizes the Catholic Charities Spanish Catholic Center of Washington
for 45 years of service to the city’s diverse immigrant population,
bringing them together and helping them give back to the community

The 12,000 young people of a hundred countries who will be present at the appointment in Budapest (Aug 31 to Sept 9), represent tens of thousands of their contemporaries in the world who share the ideal of fraternity.

The Genfest was born from a prophetic intuition of Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement. The Genfest is a meeting of young people who want to show the world that universal brotherhood, a united world, is an Ideal worth living for.

 "Let's bridge" is the title of the 10th edition of the Genfest, the "celebration" of the youth. 

On August 16, 2012, Cardinal Dolan visited the little city of the Focolare Movement Maraipolis Lunimosa for the first time.

One highlighted event of the 7th World Meeting of Families was the "Festival of Testimonies" involving an open dialogue between Benedict XVI and families from around the world. We offer a summary of the experience of the Rerrie family from the United States.