Our stories

Short and powerful stories about concrete acts of fraternity from members of the Focolare in Australia, Brazil, Germany, the United States of America and Vietnam.

An entrepreneur shares some experiences on the importance of focusing on relationships in the workplace.

We go to the USA, Pakistan and the Philippines to see and hear about some “small” actions by people who take care of those nearby.

Follow Clarisa and her family during their community food drive in Detroit.

If you want peace, work for justice. The story of Project Lia, a project in Indianapolis that seeks to help women build a new life after their time in prison.

A whole community in Toronto came together to sew masks and gowns with a lot of love and creativity.

Six months after Hurricane Maria, two young adults of the Focolare went to Puerto Rico to learn more about the experiences of resilience of its people after such a devastating event.

Can a Muslim and a Christian be truly friends? For more than 20 years a group of Christians and Muslims has been meeting every week in a Jewish deli in Indianapolis.

Our youth from Southern California and Northern Mexico visited immigrants at the border between these two countries and made this video to share their thoughts on what they lived during those days.

Suppose that just for once the media stopped being part of the problem and became part of the solution. This is a story by Austin Kellerman, news director at the local NBC TV station in Little Rock, Arkansas, and his team. They worked to decrease violence in their city.

Now more than ever politics has become a hot button issue even among family and friends. The Focolare communities in the USA grapple with this difficulty and set out to discover if dialogue is really possible.

Some youth from California and Baja California decided to meet and learn from each other’s cultures. This became a great opportunity to go beyond their own borders and realize that there is more in common that what they thought.