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	What is the Focolare Movement
		In 1981 Chiara Lubich was invited to Tokyo by Rev. Nikkyo Niwano, founder of the Buddhist lay movement Rissho Kosei-kai.
		Chiara Lubich, foundress of the Focolare Movement was born on January 22, 1920, in Trent, Italy, the first of four children of a working-class family.
		She is currently the elected president of the Focolare whose main thrust is to work for the unity of humankind.
	www.rc.net /focolare/whatis.htm (1226 words)

	Church Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Movements in the Catholic Church are groups of church members following a specific spirituality given to them by the founder of their movement.
		In the case of officially recognized movements, this specificity never finds expression in rejection or overemphasis of certain teachings of the Magisterium but constitute a specific way of Christian life.
		Opus Dei, while sharing some of the characteristics of the movements listed above is not categorised by Catholic Church authorities as a Movement, because as a personal prelature, akin to a diocese or a military ordinariate, it is an integral part of the hierarchical and jurisdictional structure of the Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Church_Movement (159 words)

	Pilot Stories -11/7/2003 - ‘Love one another’: The Focolare Movement and its mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The group of girls who comprised the original movement came across the passage of Scripture in which Jesus prayed for unity saying, “Father, may they all be one.” At that moment the girls felt that they had found their lives’ purpose — to help bring unity to the world.
		Focolare founder Lubich, who is 83, lives in Rome and is still very active in the movement, giving numerous speeches and receiving awards and recognition for her work in promoting unity.
		Focolare, which means “hearth” in Italian is also know by its formal name the “Work of Mary.” The Holy See first approved the movement in 1962 with its successive developments approved in 1990.
	www.rcab.org /Pilot/2003/ps031107/Focolare.html (1101 words)

	The Focolare Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Focolare Movement is present in 182 countries in all 5 continents.
		Thus was born a movement for spiritual and social renewal.
		They adhere to the Movement and to its initiatives which are directed at spreading the new emerging culture, with the aim of achieving the unity of all peoples.
	www.focolare.org /en/sif/Press20010207e_a.html (1702 words)

	Focolare
		We like to hear a reaction from the official Focolare movement, but also from people who are members or ex-members of this organization.
		The official Focolare leadership is especially invited to clarify their point of view.
		Focolare is working to put people in responsible positions within the Catholic Church like Cardinal Vik but also in the Italian political arena, in the economic field, at the United Nations through the cover of New Humanity.
	www.focolare.net (1451 words)

	Catholic Diocese of Cleveland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Despite its seeming lack of success, the Oxford Movement is credited with transforming, and restoring the religious life to, the Church of England; renewing interest throughout the country in Catholic doctrine and practice; and inspiring the incorporation of traditional Catholic elements into the Anglican liturgy.
		The popularity of the movement arises from the success of a weekend of exercises directed by a team composed of a married couple and a priest who have "made the weekend" themselves and who wish to share the experience with others.
		The movement from I to We, from personal prayer to prayer as a couple, is further expanded as the couple is directed to consider their marriage in the context of God's plan through prayerful reflection on a series of texts drawn from the Bible.
	www.dioceseofcleveland.org /communications/qanda.asp (11137 words)

	A New Fire :The Focolare Movement
		Focolare, which means “family fireside” in Italian, is a spiritual movement that is now present in 182 nations, with members numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
		Thus the movement was begun, with its charism of unity.
		A vital spiritual aid for the Focolare is the Word of Life, a short, monthly Scripture passage and commentary by founder Chiara Lubich that serves as a guide for daily living.
	www.anewfire.com /content/profiled/focolare.html (890 words)

	Mr. Paul Lemarié, Imam David Shaheed, Mrs. Jo-Ellen Karstens - Focolare Movement and American Society of Muslims ...
		She leads people to truly love God and to love one another The effort of the Focolare to reach as many places and people as possible, all over the earth, is not aimed at spreading the movement as such, but at bringing all of humanity to God.
		In Chiara and the Focolare we saw a demonstration of how Jesus would have treated people when he walked the earth and how he could reach the hearts and souls of the human person with his understanding of religion and people of faith.
		One of the concrete initiatives of the Focolare Movement are small cities of witness that want to show what the world would be like if everyone lived a life of unity and universal brotherhood.
	www.sedos.org /ariccia03/focolare.htm (6081 words)

	The Roots of the Focolare Movement’s Economic Ethic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The origins of the Focolare Movement date back to the experience of Chiara Lubich and her companions had during World War II in the city of Trent in northern Italy.
		The first Focolare community was fascinated by the first Christian community in Jerusalem after the death and Resurrection of Christ, and consciously started to mirror their life on the passage from the Acts of the Apostles that describes the nature of the first Christian community.
		People were primarily helped by the Focolare house itself, through a central fund, since those who had dedicated their entire lives to the community were arguably in the best position to know the needs of people in the community as a whole.
	www.acton.org /publicat/m_and_m/2003_spring/gold.html (6284 words)

	livingCity Magazine
		The Focolare Movement, founded in Trent, Italy, in 1943, is present today in 182 nations and reaches over 5 million people.
		Through its 18 branches and 6 mass movements the Focolare spirituality is having an impact on family life, the youth world and on all areas of ecclesial and secular life.
		The Movement for Unity in Politics, present in over 40 countries, is an association of politicians who, in unity across party lines, put the common good first.
	www.livingcitymagazine.com /livingcity/html/FocolareMain.htm (423 words)

	Focolare Movement Canada - Home
		The Focolare Movement was founded by Chiara Lubich in Trent, Italy, in 1943.
		In the midst of the Second World War, she and a small group of friends realized that God is the only ideal worth living for and, as a result, they focused their lives on living the Gospel.
		Today the Focolare Movement is active in 182 nations and reaches over 5 million people.
	www.focolare.ca /en/index.php (193 words)

	Catholic University to Award Honorary Doctorate to Chiara Lubich
		The Focolare Movement, whose name in Italian means hearth or family fireside, was approved by Pope John XXIII in 1962 and its subsequent development was approved by Pope John Paul II in 1990.
		"[The movement's] objective is the same as the one we could define as Jesus’ goal in educating: 'May they all be one.' Unity, therefore – a profound, heartfelt unity of all human beings with God and with one another – unity is a very timely aspiration," Miss Lubich said in her acceptance speech.
		On Nov. 10, and in the days preceeding and following the conferral ceremony, a film crew hired by the Focolare Movement to prepare a documentary on Miss Lubich's visit to the United States was at CUA filming the campus, interviewing university leaders and recording her meeting with faculty.
	publicaffairs.cua.edu /news/lubichfollow.htm (979 words)

	Fatima Perspectives - Perspective No. 142
		In short, Focolare is just another post-Vatican II substitute for the Church militant and the missions.
		The Focolare web site tells us only that "Chiara Lubich, foundress of the Focolare Movement was born on January 22, 1920, in Trent, Italy, the first of four children of a working-class family.
		Lubich does not seem aware that her hazy notion of unity was expressly condemned by Saint Pius X in his letter on the pan-religious Sillon movement in France.
	www.fatimaperspectives.com /ef/perspective142.asp (663 words)

	Adoptions at a Distance - East Timor
		New Families is a branch of the Focolare Movement and it launched this particular form of international solidarity in 1975.
		Through this project, provision is made to support the economic and educational needs of children without uprooting them from their own countries and cultures.
		The aims of AMU are inspired by the Focolare Movement's spirituality of unity and it supports a number of human promotion initiatives around the world.
	www.focolare.org.au /Families/Adoptions.htm (753 words)

	Economy of Communion
		At the beginning of the Focolare Movement, in 1943, the discovery of the New Commandment of the Gospel “Love one another as I have loved you” (Gospel of John 13:34) lead to a local communion of spiritual and material goods.
		The Focolare movement came into being in 1943 when Chiara Lubich (23) and her friends started trying to live the Christian Gospel.
		The group was often referred to as the Focolare, the Italian term for the hearth or family fireside.
	www.evrel.ewf.uni-erlangen.de /pesc/R2001-EoC.html (1361 words)

	PUPPETS OF THE PAPACY: Building The One-World Religion
		When a movement is recognized by the Church, it becomes a “privileged instrument for a personal and ever new adherence to the mystery of Christ.” In other words, it will become an instrument for the papacy.
		Lubrich claims Focolare is based on Scripture (she is noted for quoting also from the Koran and Islamic mystics), and she claims the scriptures are her guide for daily living.
		Urquart is specifically concerned with these movements' authoritarian structure, and “their use of ritual group confession, clandestine rites, and secretive ceremonies.” Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, an expert in mind-control and cult-like behavior, claims that such tactics as “group confession” are typical of cults and cult-like behavior.
	www.cuttingedge.org /articles/RC145.htm (6699 words)

	40th Anniversary of Gaudium et Spes Side Event Remarks
		Since several of their homes had been destroyed, they gathered in a small apartment that came to be known as the “Focolare” (which in Italian means “hearth”) because of the warm atmosphere of family and love that continues to be characteristic of these communities.
		The Movement for Unity in Politics has a wonderful protector—the process of canonization is underway for Igino Giordani, Italian member of parliament and co-founder of Focolare, who intuited from the Focolare’s beginnings the role that it could play in social life.
		Portions of the notes on the background of the Focolare Movement and its founder were previously published at Amelia J. Uelmen, Chiara Lubich: A Life for Unity, Logos 8:1 (Winter 2005) pp.
	www.holyseemission.org /3March2005Uelmen.html (3005 words)

	CHIARA LUBICH, RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT ORGANIZER, NAMED WINNER OF 1996 UNESCO PRIZE FOR PEACE EDUCATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Paris, 12 August {No. 96-148}- Chiara Lubich, the founder of the Focolare Movement, a world-wide spiritual organization, was named the winner of the 1996 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education.
		The seven-person jury selected Ms Lubich, 76, because her movement has contributed decisively to building peace and unity between people, generations and social classes through the collective participation of youngsters and adults, rich and poor, atheists and believers.
		These Focolare [or small communities of lay volunteers] seek to contribute to peace and to achieve the evangelical unity of all people in every social environment.
	www.unesco.org /bpi/eng/unescopress/96-148e.htm (498 words)

	Catholic World News : TENTH FOCOLARE GATHERING
		ROME (CWN) -- The tenth international meeting for young people participating in the Focolare movement was held in the city of Pompei yesterday, under the leadership of the movement's founder, Chiara Lubich.
		The Focolare movement, originally founded in Trent, was borne out of the experience of Chiara Lubich and a few companions--who were adolescents at the time--while they were under bombardment during World War II.
		The vision of Focolare has a distinctly Marian tone, and the meeting in Pompei was held at a Marian shrine, a popular site for May pilgrimages.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=444 (210 words)

	Archdiocese of Boston -1/28/2005 - Many faiths gather for Christian unity prayer service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Members of the Focolare Movement of unity, which was started by Chiara Lubich during World War II, organized and led the prayer service at Boston College.
		Pauline Sebok, a member of Focolare, said the prayer service has been held in the archdiocese for many years and is a good way for Christians to come together.
		Maria Ferreira, director of the Focolare Movement in the Archdiocese of Boston, gave a brief description of how Focolare began in Italy and has spread to approximately 5 million adherents worldwide.
	www.rcab.org /Pilot/2005/ps050128/Christianunity.html (614 words)

	CHIARA LUBICH, FOUNDER OF FOCOLARE MOVEMENT, RECEIVES UNESCO PRIZE FOR PEACE EDUCATION
		Paris, 17 December {No. 96-219} - Chiara Lubich, founder and president of the Focolare Movement, was awarded the 1996 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education today during a ceremony at Headquarters in the presence of some 1,400 persons, including numerous members of the movement from many countries.
		Describing the movement which is present in 180 countries on the five continents with some 200,000 active members and two million followers, the Assistant Director-General emphasised that its members are Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, and so on, as well as thousands of persons who profess no particular religion or philosophy.
		That was when she founded, with other young people, the Focolare Movement, the word evoking the warmth of home.
	www.unesco.org /bpi/eng/unescopress/96-219e.htm (736 words)

	Focolare Movement
		The Focolare vision of unity in community, empowered by the Word of God and lived intensely in daily life through prayer and sharing, was God’s gift to him: he responded with enthusiasm.
		One wrote: I was able to open up to him, and he was able to give me the greatest treasure he had learnt from Focolare; how to live in contact with God in the present moment.
		For Maurus the Focolare Movement stabilized his monastic vocation, and strengthened his commitment to our pastoral work.
	www.ampleforth.org.uk /Maurus/html/focolare_movement.html (311 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		There are many positive forces around that can be developed and utilized for the family to openly find its place and its task in society.
		We have seen a great and meaningful development in the New Families movement over the past 10 years, and not just in an increase in numbers.
		In fact, for years now the Movement in different nations is engaged in dialogue with leaders and faithful of the world’s religions and with people of other convictions.
	www.livingcitymagazine.com /livingcity/05_04/FamilyFest05_print.htm (562 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		ROME, FEB. 19, 2002 (Zenit.org).- Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement, addressed the question of ecumenism and progress in interreligious dialogue, following the World Day of Prayer in Assisi last month.
		The hope in our heart is that Assisi 2002 will mark the beginning of a series of well-planned initiatives prepared and carried out by those who have this responsibility so that the cry "war never again" becomes a reality.
		As for the Focolare Movement, since it is the fruit of a charism for our times, we feel we are already in tune through our different dialogues, activities and spirit, with the needs of today.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=16886 (991 words)

	A new year and hope for our country - Dec. 29, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		While communism is now but a part of history lessons, that girl and her movement are now bigger than communism ever was.
		The Focolare Movement has been here in the Philippines since 1966 (I came to be part of the movement in 1967) and continues to silently provide a new way of life to many families.
		Other than being called The Movement for Unity, the Focolare Movement is also known as the New Families Movement.
	www.inq7.net /opi/2003/dec/29/opi_wesposo-1.htm (1038 words)

	RFP-USA Newsletter
		At first in response to the war that was raging around them they began to put its words into practice in their daily lives, focusing on the poorest areas in their city.
		From its humble beginnings in the Italian city of Trent, the Focolare has become a worldwide movement, and now numbers more than 87,000 members and two million friends and adherents reaching approximately four and one-half million people in more than 182 nations.
		The Focolare has generated a new lifestyle that responds to the widespread need for a life of authenticity and in this way attempts to contribute toward peace and unity in the world.
	www.rfpusa.org /news/newsletter3.html (1321 words)

	International Review of Mission: Case study: the Focolare movement--evangelization and contemporary culture.@ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Case study: the Focolare movement--evangelization and contemporary culture.
		We would like to present the Focolare movement to you and examine its approach to evangelization in a postmodem world.
		Perhaps such a discussion of economics may seem out of place in the current setting but, as this presentation will show, it is an economic ideology which is at the heart of the current crisis in Western culture and hence, is a major challenge to the churches.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:100543143&... (210 words)

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