A Festival of Free Things: Williamsburg’s Friendsgiving for the World Day of the Poor
On November 8th, the Shalom Catholic Community in Brooklyn held a Friendsgiving event in communion with the Catholic Church’s worldwide initiative, the World Day of the Poor. This Friendsgiving celebration was organized as a Festival of Free Things: free clothes, free meals, free gifts, live music, friendship-building activities, nail services, free rosaries, and more. Everything was offered outdoors on 85 North 15th Street, between Greenpoint and Williamsburg. The event gathered around 120 volunteers, who prepared food deliveries throughout Brooklyn, served meals, distributed clothing, and set up all the spaces. This was the fourth year the Shalom Catholic Community hosted the event in Brooklyn. Over 350 meals were given out, along with 150 pizzas generously made by San Antonio’s Wood Fired ...

Acamps Summer Festival an opportunity to restart
For the last 164 days Europe has been filled with the din of artillery, the rumors of missiles, and the cries of many families and children in the midst of the destruction caused by war. But in the first days of August a cry for peace was also heard on European lands. About 300 young people gathered at the Acamps Summer Festival raised in one voice a cry for peace. Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hungarian, Polish, German, Latin-American, Italian, Croatians gathered in Molise, south central Italy to live days of fraternity, sharing and prayer. What could simple voices be in the confrontation with weapons? What is the power of prayer in the face of the deadly power of missiles? The young ...