{"id":159347,"date":"2024-07-16T14:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focolaremalta.org\/?p=159347"},"modified":"2024-07-16T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:56:23","slug":"english-a-global-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focolaremalta.org\/en\/english-a-global-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"A global pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On July 16th, 1949<\/strong>, Chiara Lubich and Igino Giordani made a \u201cPact of Unity.\u201d It was a spiritual experience that heralded in a period of light and special union with God.<\/p>\n<p>It had an effect on the life of the first Focolare community back then, but also impacted the history of the Movement together with its commitment to working toward a more fraternal and united world.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-five years after that day, here is a brief look at what that Pact meant then, and what it can mean today as we continue to live by it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch video<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A global pact - July 16, 1949\" width=\"1320\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WsCki5W0ueM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 16th, 1949, Chiara Lubich and Igino Giordani made a &#8220;Pact of Unity.&#8221; It was a spiritual experience that heralded in a period of light and special union with God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[107,193],"class_list":["post-159347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chiara-lubich","tag-igino-giordani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A global pact - Focolare Movement<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/focolaremalta.org\/english-a-global-pact\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[:mt]Il-Patt Planitarju[:en]A global pact[:] - Focolare Movement\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[:mt]Din is-sena qed ni\u010b\u010belebraw il-75 sena tal-Patt bejn Chiara u Igino Giordani. 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