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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. |
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06 January 2019
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
It is the first time in the history of the entire Middle East that a Muslim mosque and a Christian cathedral are built and inaugurated on the same day. It happened in the new administrative capital of Egypt, in a land where the Christian community unfortunately continues to be targeted by Islamic fundamentalism.
Pope Tawadros II: "Today we celebrate an unprecedented occasion where the minarets of the Mosque embrace those of the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, opening a new horizon for our beloved country".
An important day of national unity. This is what Egypt experienced yesterday during the inauguration in the new administrative capital, the largest mosque in the country and the largest Christian Basilica in the Middle East dedicated to the Nativity of Christ. It is the first time in the history of this ancient land that two places of worship, Christian and Muslim, were inaugurated on the same day. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi participated in both ceremonies, accompanied by Palestinian President Abu Mazen, Al-Azhar's Grand Imam, Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, and the Copt Orthodox head, Tawadros II.
The mosque and the Coptic cathedral were inaugurated during a ceremony that took place in the congress center of the new administrative capital. The Egyptian president al-Sisi asked those present to respect a minute's silence for the police officer who died two days ago in an attempt to defuse a bomb that had been placed in a church on the eastern outskirts of Cairo. So this year, too, the Coptic Church celebrated Christmas last night with strengthened security measures. At the opening ceremony, video messages of Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï, patriarch of the Maronite Church, and of the Greek Patriarch Melchita Youssef Absi were shown. Pope Francis also sent a greeting message. "The Prince of Peace gives the gift of peace and prosperity to Egypt, the Middle East and to the whole world". This is the wish of Francis, who addressed a "special" greeting to my dear brother His Holiness Pope Tawadros II and to the dear Orthodox Coptic Church".
After the inauguration ceremony, the president al-Sisi, accompanied by the great imam of al-Azhar and the Coptic Pope, went to the new mosque.
"This is an important day for Egypt and for the world because we see this country writing a new page in the history of civilization," President Capasso said.
Tawadros II in his greeting said: "Today we celebrate an unprecedented occasion where the minarets of the Mosque embrace those of the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, opening a new horizon for our beloved country on this happy occasion. "We pray for the unity of our country".
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12 January 2019
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
Suggestive images of the snow in Lebanon.
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12 January 2019
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
Zico was a Moroccan clochard: his real name is Abderrazzak Hatime. Fifty years of age, many spent in Naples.
Saturday night, January 12, he and his friends are drunk, he is the victim of a fight between them and in the end he is killed with a knife.
A great displeasure for a mild man.
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28 January 2019
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
The president prof. Michele Capasso and the prof. Maurizio Iaccarino attended the theatrical show "Winston vs. Churchill" with Giuseppe Battiston and Maria Roveran, directed by Paola Rota.
Taken from "Churchill, the vice of democracy" by Carlo G. Gabardini tells an unpublished Churchill.
Is it possible that a man alone can change the world? What makes it capable of changing the course of history, of intervening on the flow of events by modifying them? What allows him not to succumb to the gears? The ability to read reality? The context? The bravery? Intellectual strength? Giuseppe Battiston meets the figure of Churchill, brings it on stage, reinvents it, investigates the mystery of man through the magic of theater, without ever losing the powerful sense of irony. "Better to make the news than to receive them, better to be an actor than a critic." Of all this speaks the text of Charles G. Gabardini, which shows Churchill in a dreamlike present in which his whole existence is co-present and ends up speaking to us and us today with a disarming precision.
At the end of the show President Capasso proposed to perform a representation in the Churchill Hall of the Museum of Peace - MAMT and to nominate Battistoni at the next edition of the "Mediterranean Award".
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30 January 2019
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
President Michele Capasso and Senator Giuseppe Lumia took part in a meeting with the students of the first and second level secondary school of the Maria Ausiliatrice Institute of Naples-Vomero for a reflection on migrations, legality and interculturality as a way that leads to peace. Through the meeting with young people the most important issues of this historical moment were addressed.
