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Marco DeSalvo (right), and Paloma Cabetas, Focolare midwest region co-coordinators, Sept. 6 during The Mosque Cares' 2009 Convention and Ramadan Session.

Marco DeSalvo, writing last year for the Focolare magazine Living City:

“We were at Detroit’s Cobo Convention Center (for) the annual Muslim Convention held every Labor Day weekend with Imam Warith Deen Mohammed and his followers. By now, our Focolare presence there with them was no surprise: we were happy to show them our support and the appreciation for this dialogue that—as many people have witnessed—is a beacon of light, a sign of hope for many. We felt at home with them….”

Desalvo:

“And a Jewish friend who attended an Encounter said: ‘Yours is a real relationship; you speak openly about your faith and everything is love. There is no intention of convincing or converting. You really make yourself one with the other.’ ”

“ ‘Throughout my whole life I had waited and hoped to live what I have witnessed today!’ said a Christian friend. We could go on and on.”

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Many friends have heard me speak, write and otherwise extol our relationship of  unity and love with the members of the Focolare movement.

The Focolare tribute to Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, on the first anniversary of his passing, helps explain why (see previous post).

So does this article, from the Focolare magazine Living City last year, by Marco DeSalvo, who with Paloma Cabetas is Focolare co-director in the Midwest region of the U.S.:

http://www.livingcitymagazine.com/print/content/2008/11/we-feel-home

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