ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 16:15 pm
Pope Leo XIV called for “faith, hope, and charity to be translated into a great cultural conversion” in a message for the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples , which will be held in Rimini, Italy, in the coming days.
The Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples, launched in 1980, offers an extensive program of activities (political, economic, cultural, etc.) that brings thousands of people from various religions and walks of life each year during the last week of August to the town of Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic coast.
The initiative was inspired by what Luigi Giussani, founder of the ecclesisal movement known as Communion and Liberation , calls the elemental experience, an innate desire for truth, beauty, and justice present in the heart of eve