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12th of May 2012: the meeting “Together for Europe” takes shape in 130 cities

For the meeting on the 12th of May, the mosaic of the 2012 edition of “Together for Europe” is almost finalized, and which young people and adults from more than 300 Movements and Christian communities are joining. This third international edition, hopes to give visibility to the dynamism of fraternity that runs through the continent and expressed in experiences and proposals that touch on economy and labor, justice and peace, integration, family and other themes.

The central point will be the event at Square Meeting Centre in Brussles that, together with the representatives of the Movements and the Communities from all of Europe, will gather together personalities from the european political, institutional and cultural panorama.
Integral part of the event will be the 130 meetings that will happen simultaneously in as many number of cities throughout the continent, which will be linked by satellite and internet with the meeting in Brussels.

The variety of the initiatives are immense. Some examples are:

•    Poland – in Breslau, with the motto “Reconciliation, encounter, dialogue”, Christians from Germania and Poland will meet together;
•    Malta – in the southernmost island of Europe, a project geared towards welcoming all those who come and also towards dialogue;
•    Northern Ireland – in Belfast, the youth of the Presbytarian, Methodist, Catholic, Orthodox Church and of the Church of Ireland, affirm their common committment for peace;
•    Portugal – diversified projects in 7 cities, among which is a project in the capital city of the Azores (Ponta Delgada), the westernmost region of the European Union;
•    Germany – there are 26 cities that welcome the projects of the 12th of May, involving more than 200 Moviments, Fraternities e Communities of different Christian Churches;
•    Italy – the 2012 edition has a sizeable number of projects: 36 events in the same number of cities, from the North to the South.
Immensa la varietà di iniziative. 

At the conclusion of the convention of the 12th of May, a final manifest will be announced, addressed to the European institutions and to all its citizens.

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"Together forEurope" is the expression of a pathway that gathers numerous activities of Christian communities and movements geared towards the promotion of reconciliation, peace, fraternity in the European continent. It is also the title of specific big European events that took place in 2004 and in 2007 in Stuttgart.
Christian communities and moviments, although they are as different as their cultures, language, region of Europe, they are aware of that which could divide them, but they value even more the spirit, the ideas, the values, the committments that they share.
Together, they make the specific gifts that each one brings more effective for the good of the women and men of our continent, today and in the future.
They are present all over Europe, they live among them a relationship of profound communion, in freedom, in the respect for diversity. They cultivate openness and dialogue with all those who have the future of Europe in their heart and its responsibility in front of the world.

Journeying towards Brussels

With the decennial journey of 'Together for Europe’ “God has given us the possibility of being witnesses to the value of unity”. It is with these words that Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of St. Egidio, opened the annual meeting of the 250 movements and communities who adhere to the project, gathered together from the 10th to the 12th of November in Sassone (Rome).

After the event of last year which was held at the headquarters of the Schoenstatt Movement in Valledar (Germany), and in 2009 – on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the expereince of “Together for Europe” – wherein the meeting was held at the Center of the Community of St. Egidio (Rome), now it is the turn of the Focolare Movement to welcome the “Friends”.

The program consists of, above all, the prepration for the forthcoming event that is scheduled for the 12th of May. During the days in Rome there was the occasion to visit the International Center of the Focolare Movement (Rocca di Papa – Rome), and also a meeting with the President Maria Voce.

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