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John Paul II Foundation / Magazine (Page 2)

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August 16, 2024

After the summer vacation of 2023, we had started the new school year with great enthusiasm, organizing creative teaching activities to engage our hearing-impaired pupils in the learning process. Unfortunately, after only a month, we had to close the school due to the ongoing war. Despite the difficulties, in January, we bravely reopened the school even though due to the conflict and road restrictions, only a few pupils were able to return to the Institute, because many of them come from countries and villages far from Bethlehem and cannot pass the strict controls around them. This situation caused us great pain and frustration, but we did not give up. We met with the children's families and decided to start again, slightly adjusting the teaching disciplines to make up for lost time and continue the training-education of our deaf children. After the Christmas holidays, it was heartwarming to see all the pupils return to...

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August 13, 2024

The "Inclusi di diritto!" project, funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, has been underway in Iraq since September 2022. The project takes place in the cities of Basra and Baghdad and involves three preschools accommodating 665 boys and girls. The main result was to have strengthened the skills of 62 teachers, providing them with the necessary tools to stimulate and accompany children in the early years, which are crucial for physical, mental and behavioral development. The project also improved the educational environment in Basra's preschools by making children's learning more appropriate, thanks to innovative applied teaching methodologies and improved educational environments and related materials. In an Iraq devastated by years of armed conflict, children have great difficulty in accessing quality education. This is predominantly provided by Christian schools, which, as they do not receive government support, are inaccessible...

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August 8, 2024

The John Paul II Foundation, in collaboration with the Municipality of Terranuova Bracciolini, the Municipality's Social Services, Caritas of Terranuova Bracciolini, Auser and Misericordia di Terranuova Bracciolini, has launched an innovative co-housing project at an apartment confiscated from the Mafia. This project marks a significant step toward social inclusion and represents the beginning of true co-planning to respond in an integral way to the needs of the community. The co-housing project is designed to address both the housing emergency and the need for temporary support for people who need a period of support before they can continue their integration journey independently. This shared living environment meets the needs of the participants by providing them with a unique opportunity to live in a common space that promotes cooperation and a sense of community. Welcomed families are also expected to actively participate as volunteers in local associations, contributing to greater integration...

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August 2, 2024

The John Paul II Foundation, in collaboration with the Assisi International Peace Center (CIPA project leader co-financed by AICS), has launched a project to support small-scale farmers in Burkina Faso. The initiative is focused on creating sustainable incomes and food security for the country's poorest people. Through this project, a center will be established that will enable 13 local agricultural cooperatives to manage their production according to the quality standards required by supermarkets. This will enable the producers to obtain a much higher remuneration than that available in the rural market, greatly improving the economic conditions of the families involved. The goal is not only to ensure adequate food resources, but also to provide a stable income that can sustain the well-being of the families. In addition, this initiative aims to create development opportunities within local communities, thereby reducing the need to migrate in search of...

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July 4, 2024

The story of the death of Indian farm laborer Satnam Singh, which occurred in the province of Latina, leaves a deep bitterness in anyone who still possesses a modicum of conscience because of the accompanying inhumanity. Faced with an injured and dying man, there are those who do not know how to go beyond their own petty interests and do not think about what they can do to save that life, but act only with the intent to save themselves. This horrible story should make us reflect on the kind of society we are building, where the other counts for nothing, even in the face of death, and only self-interest matters. The affair is also yet another demonstration of the failure of the laws wanted by then Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, passed in 2018 and only partially amended during the Conte 2 government. Those laws, with their restrictive regulations, led to the creation of hundreds of thousands of illegal foreigners, deprived of any...

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July 2, 2024

From 24 to 27 June, the 96th plenary assembly of ROACO (Meeting of Aid Societies to the Oriental Churches) was held, in which the John Paul II Foundation also participated. This year, the assembly focused on the grave difficulties that Christians, especially in the Middle East, are facing. Wars, internal conflicts and insecurity are the main reasons why a large part of the Christian population in the Middle East is abandoning their territories to live in the diaspora. The meeting concluded with a moving papal audience, during which Pope Francis renewed his appeal for peace, declaring: "Once again I say: enough! enough. because violence will never bring peace." A strong call for an end to violence and the search for peaceful solutions to the ongoing crises. This event underlined the importance of international solidarity and cooperation to support Christian communities in places of conflict,...

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July 1, 2024

We invite you to attend the funeral of Bishop Luciano Giovannetti, founder and honorary president of the John Paul II Foundation. The Diocese of Arezzo Cortona Sansepolcro will bid him farewell on Monday at 3:30 p.m. with a solemn celebration. The body will then be taken to Fiesole, where a Funeral Vigil will be held at 9 p.m. in the Cathedral. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m., followed by burial in the Cathedral crypt. We look forward to welcoming you to pay tribute to his extraordinary contribution. ...

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June 29, 2024

Bishop emeritus of Fiesole, Msgr. Luciano Giovannetti, who would have been 90 years old in a few days, returned to the Father's house today. The John Paul II Foundation, which he founded more than 25 years ago to help Christians in the Middle East, prays for him as he is reunited with the Father today, in Christ, in the Holy Spirit. In these hours of bewilderment over his departure from this world, some of Bishop Luciano's words come to mind: "We must be close to the Christians who live in the land where Jesus was born, where the first church was born, where each man was born not only affectively, but also effectively." These are words Bishop Luciano Giovannetti has repeated many times over the years in which he has spent himself, sparing no energy, for Christians living in the Middle East, from Iraq to Jordan, from Lebanon to Israel and Palestine. Luciano Giovannetti was born...

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June 20, 2024

Today, 20 June 2024, World Refugee Day, we wish to make an appeal to the whole community. What makes us people? What characteristics must an individual have in order to be considered a human being, a being equal to us? Is it the country of origin, the color of the skin, the language or the possession of a plastic card that certifies the legal residence in the country? When an individual does not meet these criteria, "our" criteria, then he immediately becomes an outcast, a person who does not deserve the same rights as us, but who above all is not worthy of our humanity. Today, the John Paul II Foundation intends to express itself on those who are considered as objects. Objects of rejection, hatred, contempt but also objects of work as tools to be exploited. All to get support from the society that fears them so much, but can't do without them. Today we are talking...

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June 20, 2024

May Satnam's death teach us to change course, while there is still time We were stunned and speechless by what happened in the countryside of Latina, to the young Indian boy Satnam Singh who lost his life due to the cruelty of Italians who did not assist him after the serious accident he suffered while working in the fields. What has happened, as it is taking shape, calls on all of us to take a stand and to reverse the "course": you cannot let a person die without assisting him, dumping him in the street with his wife, without telephones, with a serious haemorrhage in progress, with his arm placed in a fruit box. The government should intervene and regularise the people who worked next to Sarnam with residence permits so that they can testify and tell all the brutality of what happened. Satnam's is not a death at work, it is the denial of...

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