Maison de la Paix || Casa Universale delle Culture (EN)

 

 CASA UNIVERSALE DELLE CULTURE

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture is a place strongly representative, in which will convey the knowledge of the different identities and cultures, structuring permanently initiatives aimed at the spreading of peace, necessary for the shared development.

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture (MdP) is a project conceived by Michele Capasso, approved by many Countries and international organizations. It is an architecture that keeps the memory of many Peace activities which created history, often more than the wars, but it is – above all – a space "to build” Peace.

The architectonical complex has an important symbolic worth: it represents the Countries of the World engaged in the Peace process and the Countries victim of the conflicts.

Proposed by the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the “Maison des Alliances” – together with the main adherent organizations, such as the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the League of Arab States, the "Anna Lindh" Euro-Mediterranean Foundation and others, the MdP represents a referent point for all the ones who dedicate their lives to peace.

The symbol of the MdP is the "Totem for Peace", an artwork by the Italian sculptor Mario Molinari which the Fondazione Mediterraneo is promoting all around the world, creating the network of the "Cities for Peace".

The first seat of the MdP was inaugurated on the 14th of June 2010 (Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture) in the historical building of the Grand Hotel de Londres in Naples.

The action of the Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture aims at improving the main activities of the "Universal Forum of Cultures" in: Barcelona (2004), Monterrey (2007), Valparaiso (2010) and Naples (2013).

The Maison de la Paix performs most of the initiatives jointly with the Maison de la Méditerranée.

 

AN “ABBRACCIO” TO ANTONIO, MATTEO, GERARDO AND GIOVANNI.

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Torre del Greco | 17 August 2018
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

"My thoughts go today to Antonio Stanzione, Matteo Bertonati, Gerardo Esposito and Giovanni Battiloro: the 4 young people of Torre del Greco - the city where I was born - who died from the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa.
To the excruciating pain and to the closeness with the Prayer to the families must be added a reflection on the disasters that our humanity makes every moment, in every place and in all the disciplines.
Only the profound assumption of a new ethics based not on profit but on the quadrinomial COMPETENCE - RESPONSIBILITY - PASSION - SOLIDARITY can avoid the repetition of these tragedies and nourish in young people a new hope able to make them HAPPINESS OF POSITIVE! ".
These are the words of President Capasso on the occasion of the funeral of the young victims of the Morandi bridge coming from Torre del Greco.

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HOLY MASS FOR SISTER MARIA LETIZIA THAT LEAVES SAN BIAGIO

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San Biagio - Pescasseroli | 05 August 2018
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

After years of commitment to the management of the "House of Prayer of St. Biagio delle FMA" Sister Maria Letizia leaves and returns to the North for another job. Great party in Pescasseroli and San Biagio with the Holy Mass.
President Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari donated a copy of the volume "Lo Specchio del Mare Mediterraneo" to Sister Maria Letizia.

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FIVE YEARS FAILED PAUL DAll’OGLIO: A BROTHER, A POWERFUL OF LOVE

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Racca | 29 July 2018
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

President Capasso on the occasion of the fifth year since the aisappearance of Abuna Paolo (Father Paolo Dall'Oglio) reminded the Museum of Peace MAMT - with videos, photos and documents - the Jesuit "in love with Islam and a believer in Jesus", as he loved to define himself.
So many memories and actions that have marked years of collaboration for dialogue and peace.
"I am still touched today - says Capasso - when to convince Muslims and Catholics to dialogue in a difficult moment of clashes and disputes, I disguised myself as Santa Claus to ease the tension: Paolo understood and, with a knowing look, encouraged me to continue".
He did not like to tell Paolo and when we gave him the EUROMED and MEDITERRANEAN AWARD he embraced us strongly saying that this recognition was for the whole monastic community and not for him.

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