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POPE FRANCIS RECEIVES THE FIRST COPY OF THE BOOK "UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD. A HISTORY TRULY OF GOD"

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Vatican City | 16 October 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Secretary General Professor Michele Capasso - accompanied by Pia Molinari - during a cordial meeting with Pope Francis dedicated the first copy of the book "United States of the World. A History Truly of God".
A large part of the one thousand two hundred pages - testifying to the choral action carried out by the "United States of the World" over the last forty years - is dedicated to Pope Francis.
The Pontiff lingered at length flipping through the pages in which, with a selection of images accompanying the text, the main stages of his pontificate are witnessed: the meeting with SG Capasso in Luján (Argentina) in 2008, the first trip to Lampedusa in 2013 and the meeting with members of the "United States of the World" engaged on the island in the "Peace Laboratories", the trips to Manila and other parts of the world, up to the recent trips to Asia, Oceania, Luxembourg and Belgium.
Moved, the Holy Father relived many significant moments: from the meeting for inter-religious dialogue in Abu Dhabi (September 2019) to the solitude of the "Way of the Cross in St. Peter's Square" (April 2020); from his dialogues with Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini to his incessant appeals for peace, against all wars; from his meeting in the Vatican with Shimon Peres, Abu Mazen and Bartholomew I (June 2014) to his recent visit to Venice with young people (April 2024); from his weeping before the statue of the Immaculate Conception in Rome (December 2022) to his participation in the G7 in Puglia (June 2024); from his meeting with Queen Elizabeth II (April 2014) to his meeting with the Salesians in Turin (June 2024); from the Naples Colloquium on the Mediterranean (June 2019) to his meeting with the Jesuits in Belgium (September 2024); from his visit to the "Totem for Peace" in the port of Naples with the urn of the "Unknown Migrant" (March 2015) to his prayers in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
At the end of the meeting, Pope Francis thanked for the "filial devotion" and personally took the book, thanking for the "precious gift", calling it "This is the Book of the Heart". Then, turning to Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari he exclaimed:
‘Read my new encyclical in the coming days, it is dedicated precisely to the Heart of Jesus... and do not forget to pray for me!’

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POPE FRANCIS RECEIVES THE BAG OF THE MOTHERS OF GAZA

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Vatican City | 16 October 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

On the occasion of the meeting with Pope Francis, Secretary-General Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari donated to the Holy Father a canvas bag made by the mothers of Gaza who have had children killed by the conflict: on the bag, in addition to the flag of the United States of the World’, is written “Holy Father help us, we pray for you!”.

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INTERRELIGIOUS MEETING "IMAGINING PEACE TO CREATE ALTERNATIVES TO WARS AND DIVISIONS"

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Paris | 22 September 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

A delegation from the "United States of the World" and the "Fondazione Mediterraneo" took part in the interreligious meeting promoted by the Community of Sant'Egidio at the Palais des Congrès in Paris entitled ‘Imagining Peace’. Speakers at the inaugural session included French President Emmanuel Macron, Andrea Riccardi, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris Chems-Eddine Hafiz, the Grand Rabbi of France Haim Korsia, Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, and Catholic Archbishop Laurent Ulrich.
Secretary-General Michele Capasso emphasised the importance of ‘creativity’ in imagining and building peace, reporting on the experience of almost forty years of commitment that, thanks to creativity, has produced concrete results.

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WITH THE 34TH ANNIVERSARY OF RAFFAELE CAPASSO'S DEATH, CELEBRATIONS BEGIN FOR THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH

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Naples, San Sebastiano al Vesuvio | 21 September 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

A Eucharistic celebration dedicated to the 34th anniversary of the death of Raffaele Capasso, mayor of the reconstruction of the town destroyed by the eruption of 19 March 1944, was held in the Sanctuary of San Sebastiano Martire.
Present in the church were his sons Michele and Pino with his wife Barbara, the mayor Giuseppe Panico with a number of councillors and administrators, the prefect of Naples Michele Di Bari - who came to the church immediately after the end of the meeting of the G7 culture ministers and after receiving the public thanks of the newly appointed Italian Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli - the headmistress Rosalba Rotondo and many friends who wished to pay homage to a man who made the recent history of San Sebastiano.

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THE "G7 CULTURE" IN NAPLES

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Naples | 19 September 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The "G7 Culture" took place in Naples. The Italian Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, welcomed delegations to the National Archaeological Museum in Naples to take part in the work of the G7 Culture in the Royal Palace.
After a tour of the museum, led by the Director General of Museums, Massimo Osanna, the maestro Gabriele Lavia, a legend of theatre and cinema, performed before the statue of Hercules Farnese a moving reading in Latin of a passage from "De Reditu Suo" by Rutilio Namaziano. Giovanni Pascoli's Italian translation and the English version were projected onto four large monitors at the sides of the stage to allow everyone to grasp the universal message of the work.
Also present at the Mann were, among others, Undersecretaries Lucia Borgonzoni and Gianmarco Mazzi, the President of the Cultural Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Federico Mollicone, the President of the Campania Region, Vincenzo De Luca, and the Mayor of the city, Gaetano Manfredi.
Minister Giuli then took the floor, representing the Latin poet's ‘Rome’ as a synthesis of everything we mean by "culture" today: "Fecisti patriam diversis gentibus unam, You have given one homeland to peoples scattered in a hundred places,’ the Minister recalled, ‘only culture can succeed in this. And today, to our distinguished guests of the G7, we say: welcome home".
The Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, then presented the "Two Years of Ukrainian Resistance" medal to Mykola Tochytskyi, Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine, during the opening session of the G7 Ministerial.
"It is not only a sign of closeness and respect - said Giuli - but also a sign of an overall project to help Ukraine. The proceeds from the sales of the medal will go to support the activities of the children's hospital in Lviv, which is committed to the treatment and care of Ukrainian children affected by the war".
Minister Giuli also donated the medal to the other G7 representatives, in recognition of their commitment to support Ukraine and to encourage them to work together to defend the cultural identity of a nation whose cultural heritage has also been attacked and affected.
The medal, struck in the workshops of the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, was strongly desired by the Italian government to celebrate the resistance of the Ukrainian people against the Russian invasion.
Members of the delegations visited the United States of the World headquarters and the Museum of Peace, welcomed by Secretary-General Michele Capasso.

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