Focolare Movement

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Focolare Movement

Established	1943; 81 years ago (1943)
Type	Roman Catholic new religious movement
Purpose	Universal brother/sisterhood
Headquarters	Via Frascati, 306 – 00040 Rocca di Papa, Rome, Italy
Region served	Worldwide, 182 nations[1]
Founder	Chiara Lubich
President	Margaret Karram
Main organ	Città Nuova, 37 editions worldwide[2]
Website	Focolare

The Focolare Movement is an international organisation and Christian new religious movement that promotes the ideals of unity and universal brother/sisterhood grounded in the Golden Rule. It was founded by then elementary school teacher Chiara Lubich in 1943 in Trento, Northern Italy as a Roman Catholic lay movement; it remains largely Roman Catholic but has strong links and has member of many major Christian denominations, other religions and non-religious people.

The Focolare Movement operates in more than 180 nations, has over 140,440 members and more than 4 million sympathisers.^[3] The word "Focolare" is Italian for "family fireside".^[4] While the term Focolare is the common sobriquet of the international organisation, its official name by the International Association of the Faithful of Pontifical Right, approved only in 1990, was "Opus Mariae" (Work of Mary) .^[5]