Key facts
- Established
- 1943 ; 83 years ago ( 1943 )
- Type
- Roman Catholic new religious movement
- Purpose
- Universal brother/sisterhood
- Headquarters
- Via Frascati, 306, 00040 Rocca di Papa, Rome, Italy
- Region served
- Worldwide, 182 nations
- Founder
- Chiara Lubich
- President
- Margaret Karram
- Main organ
- Città Nuova , 37 editions worldwide
- Website
- www.focolare.org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement
The Focolare Movement is an international organization of spiritual and social renewal and Christian new religious movement that promotes the ideals of unity and universal brother/sisterhood grounded in the Golden Rule. It was founded by then elementary school teacher Chiara Lubich in 1943 in Trento, Northern Italy, as a Roman Catholic lay movement; it remains largely Roman Catholic but includes and sympathizes with other Christian denominations, other religions and non-religious people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Focolare Movement” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.