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CELEBRATION OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF SAINT CARLO ACUTIS
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12 October 2025
A delegation from the States of the World and the Fondazione Mediterraneo and Kimiyya sections participated in Assisi and other cities in the celebrations for the feast day dedicated to Saint Carlo Acutis, the first Ambassador of the States of the World.
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF UNESCO IHP PROGRAM
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12 October 2025
In 2025, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) marks its 50th anniversary as the first UN intergovernmental initiative devoted to water research, management, and education. Celebrating five decades of advancing hydrological science, shaping policy, and fostering innovation worldwide and in Arab Region.
Since 1995, the "United States of the World" and the "Fondazione Mediterraneo" have shared the IHP programme with UNESCO, organising important events in Italy and abroad.
UNESCO Regional Office in Cairo is organizing, as part of our long partnership with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation in Egypt Several Session featuring high-level reflections, testimonials, and a retrospective on science, policy, water challenges, climate change resilience, regional and international cooperation on addressing water challenges, globally in in our region.
Looking Ahead, these sessions it will also contribute to a vision for the future, where we jointly address emerging challenges, deploy science diplomacy, and adopt inclusive approaches to water security.
MARCH FOR PEACE
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12 October 2025
A delegation from the "United States of the World" - led by Senator Giuseppe Lumia - and the autonomous sections "Fondazione Mediterraneo" and “Kimiyya” - led by Eleonora Santilli and Giuseppe Antinolfi - took part in the "Perugia-Assisi 2025 March for Peace".
Promoted by Aldo Capitini in 1961, it has continued to enrich our culture of Peace and Fraternity with shared values, ideas and commitments.
Today more than ever, this march helps us to reflect on the gravity of the ongoing wars and the need to promote global and lasting peace together.
MICHELE CAPASSO'S BOOK "WAR JOURNALS. BOSNIA" HAS BEEN PUBLISHED
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10 October 2025
Michele Capasso's book "War Journals. Bosnia" has been published in Italian and English. It is the first in a series that bears witness to the major conflicts of the last century and this century.
The ‘diary book’ is Michele Capasso's testimony and recounts his experience in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1964 to the present day, recounting episodes of friends, men and women, who came together in a great ‘chain of love’ for acts of solidarity towards the victims of a war that caused hundreds of thousands of innocent casualties.
One of the protagonists of the book is Predrag Matvejevic’, writer and essayist, who shared with the author the most significant moments at the turn of the millennium, from 1988 to 2017.
It is the story of unique human experiences at a historic moment when the Mediterranean, at the turn of the millennium, took on strategic importance for dialogue and peace: with Bosnia and Herzegovina the victim of a conflict symbolically represented by Sarajevo and Srebrenica, the town where the second genocide of the 20th century was perpetrated on 11 July 1995.
Fratricidal war, ethnic cleansing, urbicide, memoricide, genocide: against everything that was happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in general, in the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans, Michele Capasso took action, investing all his personal resources and urging people not to give up, as evidenced by the stories told in this book, where everything can be rigorously verified in documents and images.
The overall meaning of the narrative is to highlight the great strength that human beings have been able to develop in countering the adversity and pain caused by war and senseless hatred, facing adversity without ever losing faith in tomorrow.
The preview presentation of the book will take place in Sarajevo on 16 October 2025 in the presence of the protagonists and representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the main international institutions.
FEMALE THOUGHT AND CREATIVITY IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD
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07 October 2025
The United States of the World, with the sections "Fondazione Mediterraneo" and “Kimiyya”, are participating in the event "Female thought and creativity in the Islamic world". Pia Molinari, director of the Museum of Peace, emphasises that "female creativity in the Islamic world is a resource for all of us".
THE "BOOKS FOR PEACE" INITIATIVE BEGINS
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04 October 2025
The "Books for Peace" initiative has been launched to promote solidarity in areas affected by war and social unrest.
The Foundation has made rare and valuable books available to raise funds for those most in need.
Artè was among the first companies to join the initiative.
HUMANITY MUST NOT END IN GAZA
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04 October 2025
While Italy prepares for the national demonstration for Gaza, which will start at the Pyramid and end at Piazza San Giovanni, I read an article by my dear friend Ibrahim Faltas, Vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, which I agree with word for word.
In the text, he writes:
"Humanity must not end in Gaza. It is truly difficult to believe that human beings can inflict such suffering on other human beings, on more than two million people who have already suffered, who have died, who are suffering from a lack of rights and basic necessities. No one is stopping this absurdity, which robs both those who suffer and those who cause it of all dignity. After this total destruction, who can justify so much bloodshed and suffering? Will what is built on suffering and death have solid foundations? It is impossible to understand such relentless persecution of innocent, defenceless, unarmed people."
He continues:
"There can be no understanding and no justification for such inhumanity, for complicit silence, for words of circumstance. It was time to disarm the fratricidal hands and stop the fire. At this moment, I have only questions for humanity, which has defeated its own nature and does not respond to the fundamental needs of justice and truth. I hope that the international community has asked itself these same questions while we silently, helplessly and astonishedly witness this further massacre and inhuman destruction."
EMOTION AMONG VISITORS TO THE MUSEUM OF PEACE
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02 October 2025
There was great excitement today among visitors to the Museum of Peace from Italy and Latin America.
There was particular emotion in the chapels dedicated to Saint Charbel and Saint Carlo Acutis and in the section dedicated to Pino Daniele.
EMOTIONAL VIDEO ”THE MUSEUM OF PEACE TEN YEARS LATER” PRESENTED
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01 October 2025
During a ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the reopening of the MAMT Peace Museum, the emotional video ‘The Peace Museum Ten Years Later’ was presented.
Diplomats and members of the 181 countries of the United Nations participated.
On this occasion, the 10-minute video spot produced in collaboration with RAI was also screened.
The video was produced by ‘Phantasya Communication s.r.l.’ in collaboration with organisations and institutions involved in high-definition filming: the Campania Region co-financed the video as part of its contributions to museums for the year 2025 (D.D. 99 and 102 of 13.06.2025).
In this way, in thirty minutes it is possible to gain an understanding of the main emotional journeys of the Museum, which attract visitors from all over the world, as well as to see the main documents, objects and gifts from heads of state and government to the Museum.
The 20 sections of the Peace Museum cover major themes such as the environment, archaeology, architecture, art, crafts, legality, migration, music, religions, history and traditions, food, and the great protagonists of history: from Pertini to Caponnetto, from Churchill to Kennedy, from Padre Pio to Mother Teresa, from Don Diana to Falcone, from Don Bosco to Borsellino, and so on down a long list.
The Museum is considered an "emotional heritage of humanity" and has been declared of regional and international interest. It is equipped with tactile maps for the visually impaired.
BARBARA DI CASTRI SIGNS THE KIMYYA POSTER
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27 September 2025
Journalist and writer Barbara di Castri has signed the “Kimyya Poster” for women's rights, expressing her great appreciation for the initiative.