Maison de la Paix || Casa Universale delle Culture (EN)

 

 CASA UNIVERSALE DELLE CULTURE

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture is a place strongly representative, in which will convey the knowledge of the different identities and cultures, structuring permanently initiatives aimed at the spreading of peace, necessary for the shared development.

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture (MdP) is a project conceived by Michele Capasso, approved by many Countries and international organizations. It is an architecture that keeps the memory of many Peace activities which created history, often more than the wars, but it is – above all – a space "to build” Peace.

The architectonical complex has an important symbolic worth: it represents the Countries of the World engaged in the Peace process and the Countries victim of the conflicts.

Proposed by the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the “Maison des Alliances” – together with the main adherent organizations, such as the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the League of Arab States, the "Anna Lindh" Euro-Mediterranean Foundation and others, the MdP represents a referent point for all the ones who dedicate their lives to peace.

The symbol of the MdP is the "Totem for Peace", an artwork by the Italian sculptor Mario Molinari which the Fondazione Mediterraneo is promoting all around the world, creating the network of the "Cities for Peace".

The first seat of the MdP was inaugurated on the 14th of June 2010 (Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture) in the historical building of the Grand Hotel de Londres in Naples.

The action of the Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture aims at improving the main activities of the "Universal Forum of Cultures" in: Barcelona (2004), Monterrey (2007), Valparaiso (2010) and Naples (2013).

The Maison de la Paix performs most of the initiatives jointly with the Maison de la Méditerranée.

 

POPE LEO XIV IN ALGERIA TO BUILD BRIDGES AND FOSTER DIALOGUE

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Algiers | 13 April 2026
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

A delegation from the “United States of the World” and the “Mediterranean Foundation” took part in the various events during Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Algeria, in the capital Algiers and in Annaba, the city of St Augustine.
“A blessed visit” - with these words, the Pontiff thanked the Algerian authorities and the “small but significant” local Church, reaffirming the relevance of St Augustine’s message to “seek unity among all peoples and mutual respect despite differences”, and recalled his visit to the Great Mosque of Algiers: “Despite different beliefs and different ways of praying, we can live together in peace.”
The Holy Father recalled the “special visits” he made on 13 and 14 April to the Basilica of Notre-Dame d’Afrique in Algiers and to the Basilica of Saint Augustine in Annaba, on the hill overlooking the modern city and the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Hippo. According to the Pontiff, all this has “great symbolic value”, because Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo for more than thirty years, “is a figure from the past who speaks to us of tradition, who speaks to us of the life of the Church in the early centuries of its development”, yet, at the same time, remains an “extremely important figure even today”.
Secretary-General Capasso states: “St Augustine’s writings, teaching, spirituality, and call to seek God and the truth are the message we so desperately need in today’s world; a message that is highly relevant not only to all of us believers but also to every person.”
For a Pope who immediately declared himself a “son of Saint Augustine”, it was therefore “a special grace” to be able to return to Annaba and “offer to the Church and to the world” the vision of the great Father of the Church: “That of the search for God and the effort to build community, to seek unity among all peoples and mutual respect despite differences”.

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THE POWER OF PEACE

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Beijing | 01 April 2026
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

From Beijing (CIECC), the Secretary General of the "United States of the World," Professor Michele Capasso, launched yet another heartfelt Appeal for World Peace, recalling the warning of Gustavo Adolfo Rol, who, as early as 1987, warned humanity of the risks of a process of self-destruction caused by wars, conflicts, and the destruction of creation.
The Appeal emphasizes that "Democracy is a high expression of legitimate power only if it respects ethical and moral rules. Otherwise - as is unfortunately happening in the United States of America led by President Trump - the risk is that it will transform into a 'tyranny of the majority' or a 'domination of economic and technological elites.'" 
"The great, irreplaceable value of democracy is the free choice to elect those who govern and replace them peacefully when their mandate expires. The danger," the text reads, "is the self-aggrandizement of Power that fuels a suicidal selfishness, contaminating all of humanity".

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THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE KING OF MOROCCO AND THE HOLY SEE

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Rome | 25 March 2026
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

A meeting was held in Rome, in the main hall of the Gregorian University, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of relations between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Holy See.
Guests of the Moroccan Ambassador to the Holy See, Rajae Naji El Mekkaoui, included Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, and André Azoulay, adviser to King Mohammed VI of Morocco, who had previously been received by Pope Leo XIV.
The Secretary-General of the United States of the World, Michele Capasso, recalled the long-standing relations between Morocco and the Holy See and the fraternal friendship with Cardinal Pietro Parolin and André Azoulay.
“On this occasion,” said Capasso, “I wish to highlight Morocco’s role in interreligious and intercultural dialogue and the great vision of King Hassan II in viewing religious differences as a resource rather than a threat”.

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WORLD WATER DAY 2026

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Naples – Rome – Tunis – Algeri – Marrakech | 22 March 2026
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

As they do every year, the United States of the World and the Fondazione Mediterraneo celebrated "World Water Day" in various cities across the five continents.
In particular, at the organisation’s headquarters in Naples, Secretary-General Michele Capasso emphasised the urgent need to protect water resources, especially at this difficult time in human history, marked by wars, pandemics, social injustices and climate change.
The scientists present relaunched the “Appeal of the United States of the World” for universal cooperation capable of reducing the disasters caused by drought, using examples of good practice such as technologies for the desalination of seawater

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INTERNATIONAL FRANCOPHONIE DAY

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Paris - Dakar - Lisbon - Nantes - Aosta - Alessandria d’Egitto - Dublino - Libreville - Montréal - Ottawa - Baza - Naples - Abdijian | 20 March 2026
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The “United States of the World” and the “Fondazione Mediterraneo” are supporting and taking part in “International Francophonie Day” in various cities across five continents.
In a message to the Secretary-General, Ms Louise Mushikiwabo, Secretary-General Michele Capasso emphasised the importance of the French language in the world, where it remains the fourth most spoken language, with over 400 million speakers.

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