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In the feast with 300 children The words of a speech given by Chiara Lubich to young people in 1970, are a strong topic even today.  This is the experience of Rosario Cabrero, a Spaniard from Cordova, a member of an association in her town.

By Rosario Cabrero - Cordova (Spain)  
In the Balkans between pain and hope Small and large testimonies from a land torn by ethnic conflicts, where fraternity becomes an occasion for social rehabilitation. And where the hatred slowly leaves the room for hope of a final reconciliation.

From Belgrade - Serbia  
A Prayer for an Innocent Archbishop Elianta and Maria are two friends who have decided to live for the others.  Within their community they started a prayer group to defend their Archbishop from political injustice.  Against all odds they continue fighting for justice..

From Zimbabwe

Education in infant nutrition in a city A pediatrician’s action in a Recife hospital: Agreement with her colleagues who wish to live fraternity, making them more aware of their patients’ problems. In this way a project for correct nutrition develops that involves the whole region.

from Maria Aparecida de Araujo - Recife (Brazil)

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The culture of life

“In every family is the life of the others as precious as one's own? Here is the seed of the culture of life, that should underlie every law and every social structure”.


Biological life, from conception to death, has an intrinsic dignity, which bestows upon each person a per se value. This dignity originates from the psycho-biological singularity, which is an objective scientific datum, about which everybody agrees. Indeed this uniqueness allows to understand the value that every single person has, her inner life, her thoughts, beyond any possible philosophical, religious, or ideological difference. Each person represents a unique and singular aspect of the richness of life, and she can express herself only if both the environmental and cultural contexts allow her to do it. Confronted with the ever new discoveries of science and technique, a natural need appears, namely the need to help society in promoting an integral culture of life, that can take into account every expression, phase, and condition. A unanimously shared value of life should be the base of any political and social committment.

Under this point of view, let us try and highlight what already exists:

1) Are there in your city cultural, institutional, voluntary actions, that show particular concern for the beginning and the end of life?
2) In your city are there  experiences of health operators, rearchers, citizens, which are perceived as innovative and look at the patient as a whole, at not only under a sheer bio-medical (i.e. illness, diagnosis, therapy) point of view?
3) In your city are there institutions or voluntary experiences, that give value to the solidarity attitude from citizens, and therefore give a contribution to participation to community life from sick, elder and disabled people, and their families?
4) Are there social agencies taht promoted the development of services for people with specific diseases?


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Istanbul la città dell'incontro inevitabile

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instanbulDal 16 Gennaio la città turca è capitale europea della cultura

Franco La Cecla (Palermo, 1953) è architetto e docente di antropologia culturale in Italia e all'estero. Nei suoi lavori ha affrontato il tema dell'organizzazione dello spazio contemporaneo nell'armonia tra locale e globale, ponendo una particolare attenzione alle soglie, ai confini tra le culture.
Il prof. La Cecla ha recentemente pubblicato un interessante articolo sulla città di Istanbul, dal 16 Gennaio capitale europea della cultura.
“Queste colline”- così conclude l'articolo - “sono in realtà un affacciarsi sul destino dell'Europa, sul senso dell'apertura inevitabile tra culture, sul senso soprattutto dell'essere giovani oggi, sulla caduta fortunata di frontiere, sulle occasioni generose di strade e spazi pubblici dove si incrociano minigonne e veli, gendarmi e studenti Erasmus, spagnoli e italiani, e ovviamente anatolici con in testa le gerle del pane di sesamo che qui scandisce le mattine”.

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