A ceremony was held at the headquarters of the United States of the World and the Museum of Peace to mark the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the "Academy of the Mediterranean" - an autonomous section of the United States of the World - in Naples on 10 October 1998.
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08 October 2023
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Blind faith in force has destroyed all compassion, rejected all dialogue, and is proudly advancing in Gaza amidst the ruins and deaths of hundreds of civilians as well as in so many villages in Israel amidst the fear and casualties of more than 3,000 rockets from Gaza.
Europe and the governments of the West, just as they were mute when the holocaust of the Jews was being prepared and perpetrated, now tergiversate with empty words, waiting until, the fighting over, the victor grants them the semblance of having brokered peace.
It is up to civil society to rise up and say enough!
To say loud and clear that human values, which are the hard-won achievement of its history and the glory of its culture, must always be respected, now and immediately, in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, in Jerusalem and everywhere in the world.
"With broken hearts," say the United States of the World, "we witness yet another resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The many efforts we have made, the many appeals spread all over the world, the meetings in our headquarters in Naples with Shimon Peres, Arafat, Abu Mazen, Mubarak and other exponents of the Arab countries had led to concrete progress in the peace process. The United States of the World has always proposed itself as an institutional place for dialogue, concretely analysing prospects for resolving the conflict in order to build shared peace responses".
The 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops opened in the Vatican, whose work will end at the end of October 2023.
Great emotion and celebration for don Ángel Fernández Artime, 10th successor of Don Bosco, who this morning, 30 September 2023, was officially created Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church by Pope Francis.
The Italian Institute for the Future - a member of the SUM network - celebrated its tenth anniversary in the headquarters of the United States of the World and the Museum of Peace. On this occasion, an international meeting took place with several round tables: among them the one dedicated to "Future (IM)POSSIBLES of the South", "Future (IM)POSSIBLES: Living on the Edge of Chaos" and others.