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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

Free Online Registration now open or contact y4uw.midwest@focolare.us

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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.

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Video: Chiara Luce Badano Presented in Dialogue

Presented at the Midwest Mariapolis 2010

 

At the beginning of June over 500 young adults from around the world attended the Big Hope conference at Liverpool Hope University in England.

be a family “If I should have to leave this world today and you were to ask me for one last word that sums up our Ideal, I would say “Be a family...” I would have Jesus in me repeat to you: “Love one another... so that all may be one.” Chiara Lubich,  founder of the Focolare Movement, Dec 25, 1973

Friday, July 11 after dinner to Tuesday, July 15 after lunch  Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

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