Over €9.6 million have been invested in 177 projects, 394 individual grants and 14 projects in 13 countries supported by the Economy of Communion. The Focolare Movement’s 2024 Assessment of Communion in Action describes projects of solidarity which aim to make a better world.

Rome, 6 November 2025 – The Focolare Movement today presented its 2024 Bilancio di Comunione (Sharing of Goods Report) at the Pontifical Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome, under the title “L’avete fatto a me” (“You did it to me”). Inspired by the Gospel message of Matthew 25:40, the report offers a living testimony to concrete acts of fraternity carried out across the world — initiatives that arise from the Movement’s charism of unity and respond to the pressing needs of our time, in strong partnership with civil society, faith communities, and international organisations.

In her opening remarks, Margaret Karram, President of the Focolare Movement, highlighted the profound link between faith, social engagement, and hope: “Beyond numbers and projects, what this report reveals is a global family committed to seeing Christ in every person, especially in those who are most vulnerable, and to building paths of justice, peace, and human dignity.”

The event featured contributions from Sr. Alessandra Smerilli, Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and Moira Monacelli of Caritas Internationalis. Representatives from five initiatives rooted in the Focolare’s spirituality shared their transformative experiences:

Fo.Co. ONLUS (Sicily, Italy), supporting migrants and unaccompanied minors;

UNIRedes, a network of 74 social organisations in Latin America and the Caribbean;

Focolare Carpentry Training Centre (Philippines), providing vocational training and job opportunities for disadvantaged youth;

TogetherWeConnect (Israel and Palestine), offering training in dialogue and peace-building;

Centro Medico di Man (Ivory Coast), delivering healthcare in a fragile post-conflict region.

These stories of change are drawn from the wider Annual Report which this year documents over 200 initiatives in fields ranging from education to ecological transition, migration support to prisoner accompaniment, youth empowerment to social business. Each project is rooted in the spirituality of unity, with a strong emphasis on shared responsibility, co-creation, and sustainable impact.

The report aligns closely with global frameworks including the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, Pope Francis’ encyclicals Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti.

The “You did it to me” report offers a compelling witness: that real change is possible when communion becomes a lived reality — a shared good that multiplies hope.

For more information and to access the full report, visit: www.focolare.org

On 19th January, 2023, the Biennial Report entitled “Communion in action; a lifestyle of sharing” published by the Focolare Movement was presented in Rome. It is an overview of the activities and initiatives promoted by the Movement during the period 2020-2021.

The first report of this kind published by the Focolare Movement was presented to an audience from the diplomatic, political and religious worlds and to journalists from the Italian media.

The document describes a lifestyle made up of spontaneous sharing, not only of goods but of experiences and needs. It is all inspired by evangelical love. Contemplating the fruits of this sharing encourages a renewed dialogue to increase communion even more. Alongside material resources, the invisible goods which have been donated, invested or gathered in this period are given equal importance.

The journalist Claudia di Lorenzi facilitated the event. It opened with a greeting from the President of the Focolare Movement, Margaret Karram, who said. “I hope that these pages mark the beginning of an ever greater sharing. We desire to be credible seeds of hope that contribute to renewing the world with love”.

Geneviève Sanze, Economist and Co-Responsible for the aspect of “Economy and Work” at the International Centre of the Focolare Movement, explained that “this Report is an instrument of dialogue, an attempt to offer a glimpse of what we try to bring into society to progress the path towards fraternity”.

Sr Marilena Argentieri, President of the CNEC (National Centre for Religious Community Economists) said that what “the Report conveys the idea that nothing belongs to us (…) because everything I have is in communion with others”. Then she added a personal note, “I think the Report makes me grow in freedom and detachment, because at its centre is love for God and love for the poor”.

Andrea Riccardi, historian and Founder of the Community of Sant’Egidio, said, “This document highlights the effects of this communion, of what we have and what we are, in a voluntary and free sharing. And to some extent the more communion there is, the less the effects can be controlled but perhaps the more the Gospel is lived. The Focolare Movement, which has spread silently in many countries of the world, is like a network in society and in the Church, that protects the earth from landslides. We are in a time of human, ecological and religious unease and then there is this network of friendship in the world and here I insist on the value of unity, but a unity that is rooted in so many places in the world, has a much greater value”.

In his turn, Luigino Bruni, Economist and Professor of Economics at the Lumsa University in Rome, said that “the Report reminds us of the importance of the relational capital, the spiritual capital and the invisible capital that make our community beautiful and rich (…). Charisms are capable of activating energies deeper than money, that is, people act for higher aims”.

The “Communion in action; a lifestyle of sharing” Report is a 112-page document, in which you can visualize the life of the Focolare Movement, from the many initiatives to the aspect of formation and study, from communication to ecology and in which it is clear that, as Geneviève Sanze said, “it is not money that changes the world but “new” women and men who bring a new culture of fraternity. This is what we want to highlight”.

Carlos Mana
Office of Communications

Source: Focolare International Website

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The Focolare Movement has published a comprehensive Annual Report for the period 2020-2021 detailing its works and activities throughout the year.

For the first time ever, the Focolare Movement is publishing a mission balance sheet and has decided to do so in the light of this period of crisis and uncertainty that bears the aftermath of the pandemic and the open wounds of the many conflicts around the world. But it is precisely when the greatest and most common problems appear that a feeling of true fraternity and solidarity seems to emerge between people.

Therefore, rather than being a simple report, this Balance Sheet of Communion aims to give the reader an explanatory narrative of the actions and interventions of the Focolare Movement, highlighting what unites and what still needs to be improved. The Balance Sheet places particular emphasis on the key element that is evident from the name itself: communion.

The lifestyle proposed by the Movement, in fact, is based on the choice of putting love into practice which is rooted in the Gospel. A love that – as the founder of the Focolare Movement Chiara Lubich (1920-2008) said – means loving everyone, being the first to love, “getting into the skin of the other”, in such a way that this love extends until it becomes reciprocal, until it reached the point of becoming communion.

In this perspective, the document aims to highlight the effects of communion itself, of what one has and is, in a voluntary and free sharing. At the same time it seeks to make of itself an instrument that opens up dialogue and communion, as President Margaret Karram said in her introductory speech:

“It is with these sentiments that I wish to offer it to you all so that it too can become an instrument of dialogue, to build bridges and spread a culture and the practice of fraternity. It is so close to my heart that we may learn to live this communion, this exchange better and better, in a relationship of reciprocity that makes us sisters and brothers and promotes an authentic family where diversity enriches us and binds us in a harmonious unity”.

See pdf of Annual Report in Italian

The text is being translated into other languages and will be published soon.