Focolare in the US and Canada

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. Theology professor David Carlson and Imam Michael Saahir share their story in this episode of the podcast “Paths to Unity.”

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Our youths 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. Focolare communities in the USA grapple with this difficulty and set out to discover if dialogue is really possible.

Some youths 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.