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On Sunday afternoon, September 15, in one of the most active neighborhoods of the Florentine capital, Isolotto, the Foundation participated in a moment of prayer and meditation on peace. The event, proposed by several Florentine parishes, extended the invitation also to other denominations and lay realities in the city, committed to pursuing a peace that starts from the "I. In turn, speakers urged accountability through thoughts and reflections. Several references were made to the armaments sector, always a sensitive issue to address but one that has reached record numbers in terms of market and production that are no longer negligible. In fact, there are nearly 60 wars going on in the world today, never so many since the end of World War II. In the wake of this, FGP2 reported the direct testimony of Father Ibrahim Faltas, a member of our BOD, who for years has been working on the front lines in the Holy Land for a definitive peace...
Florence, Sept. 3, 2024 The John Paul II Foundation joins the initiative promoted by some Florentine parishes to call for peace, "If you want peace, prepare peace." We reproduce the poster that the communities have prepared to invite everyone to Isolotto for Sunday, September 15. The John Paul II Foundation, which has been working in the Middle East for more than twenty-five years, joins the invitation to participate in the prayer meeting for peace, promoted by some Florentine parishes, for Sunday, September 15 in the Isolotto square in Florence. The Foundation fully endorses what the parish communities wrote, "Peace will never be the fruit of distrust, the fruit of walls, of weapons pointed at one another. St. Paul says, "Each one will reap what he has sown" (Gal 6:7). Brothers and sisters, our civilizations right now are sowing destruction, fear. Let us, brothers and sisters, sow hope! Let us be sowers of hope" (Pope Francis). Pope Francis was one of the first to declare that...
The "Service Center" desk, located at the offices of the John Paul II Foundation on Viale Roma 9, opens in the town of Pratovecchio-Stia on Tuesday, March 5. The result of a collaboration between the John Paul II Foundation, Caritas diocesana of Fiesole, Patronato ACLI of Arezzo and ACLI Service of Arezzo, this new counter will provide targeted services for migrants (residence permit, family reunification, citizenship and legal assistance), INPS social security practices (pension, disability, unemployment), and tax assistance (730 models, ISEE). The desk is part of a larger project, financed by the Bank of Italy, that provides support to vulnerable groups in the ways that the John Paul II Foundation has already successfully experimented in the Valdarno Aretino area. Opening hours will be dedicated to migrant services on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; the patronage office will be open every Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; while the CAF will be available...
The John Paul II Foundation, together with the Villa Pettini Family Point, the Fraternity of the Visitation and the Ant, has launched the project "The Villa Pettini table: a community that welcomes and includes" for the social integration of people living in socio-economic hardship, particularly migrants in the area. The project, funded by the Tuscany Region and supported by the Valdarno Conference of Mayors, has already begun in previous months with preparatory activities, but from February 14, 2024, it will enter its final operational phase. This includes the opening of a desk aimed at offering services of employment guidance, housing support and contribution, legal assistance as well as cultural mediation. In addition, job training pathways are planned. The counter will be available, by appointment, every Wednesday from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Giglio Oratory (Via Michelangelo,1 Montevarchi), the Don Bosco Oratory (Via Papa Giovanni XXIII, 2 San Giovanni V.no) or at the Caritas headquarters (Piazza Masaccio,...
The John Paul II Foundation, which has been working in the Middle East for over twenty-five years and is recognized by both the State of Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, joins the appeal promoted by the national network AssisiPaceJustice. On Sunday, February 4, it will be present in the Palazzo Vecchio and invites its friends and supporters to take part. Just as we wholeheartedly participated last October 23 in the silent torchlight proclaimed by Father Bernardo Gianni. A moment shared with many thousands of people of all faiths and different political affiliations but united by asking for peace. United by walking together, side by side, carrying a candle to light the way. The Foundation joins today, as it has always done in the past, in calling for the realization of the "two peoples in two states" solution, the only way to lasting peace in the Middle East, without any more delay or hesitation. Today in these dark days we are living through, the identification of...
The John Paul II Foundation will participate in Saturday's March for Peace through the streets of Arezzo. The coming together, women and men, of different religions and cultures, united by remembrance, by memory, walking to ask for peace is important in this particular historical moment we are living. Walking together is a sign of hope and, at the same time, of closeness with those who cannot do so because they are under bombs or inhabitants of undemocratic countries. In these weeks in which the only voices we hear are the cries of those who are killed, tortured, oppressed in many countries of the world, we in silence will walk alongside each other, because every woman or man is my brother and sister. The John Paul II Foundation, established over 25 years ago, joins and will ask its friends and supporters to participate in the March to reaffirm the centrality of man and his rights: right to peace, right to...