SHEPHERDS FRANCESCO E GIACINTO ARE SAINTS

Fatima | 13 May 2017
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Great emotion in Fatima when Pope Francis, with the images of the two shepherds Francesco and Giacinto Marto behind him, canonizes them "SAINT" of the Church.
The applause of the oceanic crowd gathered around the Fatima Shrine wing exploded at the announcement.
Born in Alijusterel, less than two years apart, they died shortly after the apparitions (the first 100 years ago, on 13 May 1917) as Our Lady had announced. Short lives but sufficiently valid for the Catholic Church to recognize, for the first time in its 2000 years of history, the"heroic virtues and the maturity of the faith of non-martyr children".

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THE FOUNDATION PRESENT AT THE CELEBRATIONS FOR THE CENTENARY OF THE APPARITIONS OF THE MADONNA OF FATIMA

Fatima | 13 May 2017
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Great emotion for the presence of Pope Francis at the celebrations for the centenary from the apparitions of Madonna of Fatima to the 3 little shepherds Giacinta, Francesco and Lucia. More than one million people attended the vigil and Holy Mass celebrated by Pope Francis.
As on the occasion of every ten years, the Fondazione Mediterraneo has participated in a co-organized meeting dedicated to inter-religious dialogue and peace.

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CELEBRATIONS FOR THE CENTENARY OF THE APPARITIONS OF MADONNA DI FATIMA TO THE MUSEUM OF PEACE

napoli | 13 May 2017
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The Museum of Peace - MAMT becomes virtually the Sanctuary of Fatima and the great videowalls virtually connect with Pope Francis and the million faithful who attend the Holy Mass and the canonization of the little shepherds Giacinta and Francesco Marto Saint of the Catholic Church.

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MEETS AT THE SENATE THE PARLIAMENTARYASSEMBLY OF THE UfM, BORN IN 2003 IN THE SEAT OF THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO

Roma | 12 May 2017
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The Presidents of the Parliaments of the 42 Euro-Mediterranean countries belonging to the Union for the Mediterranean met at Palazzo Madama, in the presence of Presidents Boldrini and Grasso and President Gentiloni. Among the topics are migration and a new geopolitics of the Mediterranean to ensure peace and development.
President Capasso, who was present at the meeting, recalled the twenty-five years commitment of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, which hosted, in its own headquarters in Naples, the constituent assembly of the "Euromed Parliamentary Forum", later transformed into the Parliamentary Assembly of the UfM.

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