The piano recital by Alexei Melnikov at Meeting 2015
“The imprint – Modern Hearts”
Multimedia show with a selection of the best poems
of last century and great names of Italian theater
The numbers of the Meeting 2015
Rimini, August 18 2015 (Program) There are 78 encounters planned for the 36˚ edition of the Meeting for the Friendship Amongst Peoples (“What is this lack a lack of, oh …
How Can we Experience Faith in the Contemporary World?
A pivotal session of the Meeting was held today at 5 pm, on the topic of faith, in light of Fr. Giussani’s biography, “Vita di don Giussani”, written by Alberto …
Evangelii Gaudium: challenges. From Latin America to Italy
Today’s talk was a dialogue between Msgr. Gualtiero Bassetti, Bishop of Perugia, and Guzmàn Carriguiry, Secretary of the Pontificial Commission for Latin America, which emphasized the importance of Evangelii Gaudium, …
The recovery of the existential borderlines in nihilism
“The society of global risk, to use the sociologist Ulrich Beck’s term, lives the paradox between the exaltation of individuality on one hand, and the risk for someone to become …
What is this lack, o heart, of which you are suddenly full of?
The title of the XXXVI edition of the Meeting for friendship amongst people that will take place in Rimini from the 20th to the 26th August 2015
Stories from the World. Walking next to the Wall
Nobody will ever be able to take a seat in the chair burned to a crisp any longer. Everything has been lost in a Coptic church in Egypt, where a …
Public Life: Justice and Gratuitousness
This was a great moment of dialogue and work for the attendees of the session held in the Intesa Sanpaolo Auditorium at 5 pm. On stage, Luciano Violante, President Emeritus …
Testimonies from the Edges: A Subject for Development
Davide Perillo, the director of the monthly magazine Traces introduced this session stating that: “What we are interested in discovering is how the work of AVSI is capable of generating …
Truth is an Encounter
It is a feeling shared by everyone, believer or not: the absolute proximity of Pope Francis to our lives. We can understand the reasons and motivations, understand how much is …
Freedom behind bars: true rehabilitation begins from an encounter
The large auditorium Intesa San Paolo D5 quickly filled up this afternoon at 3 pm for the session titled “Testimonies from the Edges: Freedom behind Bars.” Among the attendees – …
In History, the Company of Destiny to Man
Continuing the tradition of the Rimini Meeting: the title of this year’s festival provokes a reflection and discussion around a theme, central to our lives. During this presentation, conducted in …
The fascination of research: from the specifics to the universal
“From a single clue to the meaning of everything, until we go beyond what is already known without loose the contact with reality, as Pope Francis has invited us to …
Youth and Employment: What’s their Future? With Vittadini, Aprea, Persico, Rosina and Nembrini
Give job opportunities to youth, make professional training better, give hope to new generations. The theme is very important, according to the speakers who have participated in yesterday’s conference “Youth …
Making the Impossible Possible: When Sports Help you Grow Up
In the salone D3, packed to full capacity, the unthinkable becomes possible as coaches and educators demonstrate “how one grows up through sports.” Peripheries are not just places, but first …
Testimonies from the edges: education, an introduction to reality
“The problem of life is not success, but love,” said Emilia Guarnieri, President of the Foundation Meeting For Friendship amongst People, mentioning Juliàn Carròn speaking at the pilgrimage in Czestochowa …
Without Beauty Life is a Bore
Four people, with very different backgrounds, met and discussed on the theme of beauty. Among the panelists: “A designer who invented the most beautiful curved glass,” says journalist Alessandro Banfi, …
The Reverse of the Right: The New Rights
“Right is some kind of pragmatic anthropology: a big selfie of our society. In an era during which social rights become smaller, new rights surface. Originally born to limit power, …
Swap: When Diversity Becomes a Treasure
Davide Perillo, Director of the monthly magazine Tracce (published in English as Traces), introduced the session titled “University and education to Freedom: the Experience of the Share With All People …







