The John Paul II Foundation and the Focolare Movement - Italy welcome the appeal of the Apostolic Vicariate of Beirut of the Latins and the Vatican Apostolic Nunciature in Lebanon....
Lebanon is a country in collapse: people are getting poorer and poorer, young people are also leaving the country illegally, risking death at sea, a phenomenon never before seen in the country. So many families who did not have problems before are now asking for help to be able to send their children to school or for treatment, just think that a Covid-19 diagnostic swab costs as much as a monthly salary....
The project made possible the purchase and renovation of a building to open a youth center as part of the fight against social exclusion and delinquency in the city of Shymkent, Kazakhstanan....
Brother Ibrahim Faltas, project director, a Franciscan from the Holy Land and a member of the John Paul II Foundation, tells us about the birth of this program, which has enabled more than 70 Palestinian students to study in Italy and build their future. ...
The "Piccirillo Handicraft Center," in the city of Bethlehem, is a project implemented by the John Paul II Foundation together with the Custody of the Holy Land in 2014 to meet the economic and social needs of the city's population, with special attention to people with disabilities....
Throughout Italy more and more people and families are in need. In Tuscany alone, where the headquarters of our Foundation is located, between 20 and 25 thousand people live in poverty, numbers that unfortunately seem destined to worsen due to the serious health and economic crisis we are experiencing....
Before the outbreak of the conflict 150,000 Christians lived in Aleppo. Today less than 30 thousand remain. Those who have remained live in extremely harsh conditions, and paying the highest price are especially children, the most vulnerable. Since 2016, together with the Franciscan friars and thanks also to the readers of Famiglia Cristiana, the John Paul II Foundation has been helping families who, after years of war, are still resisting in Aleppo....
In 2015, in the face of the tragedy of thousands of refugees fleeing death, war and hunger who were, as they are today, on their way to a new life, Pope Francis made a strong appeal asking everyone to be "next" to the many forgotten brothers and sisters....
The project made it possible to renovate the premises of the Rosary Sisters School in Bethlehem....
The project was created with the aim of building and operating a nursing home for elderly people in socio-economic vulnerability and offering them all-round care and hospitality services....