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XVI Edition of the Mare Nostrum Journalism Awards

The award ceremony for the winners of the XVI Edition of the Mare Nostrum Awards International Journalism Prize, organised by Grimaldi Magazine Mare Nostrum and sponsored by the National Order of Journalists and the United States of the World, was held yesterday evening at the Grand Hotel Vesuvio in Naples.
The ceremony was attended by representatives of the institutional, academic, information and shipping worlds.
The international jury of the Prize, chaired by journalist Bruno Vespa and composed of important personalities from the world of culture and journalism - including the Secretary General of the United States of the World Michele Capasso - decreed the following winners:

  • Diego Casali for the article "Motorways of the sea to the digitalisation test" published in QN - Quotidiano Nazionale - Speciale Mobilità
  • Meriem Khdimallah for the article "Femmes marins: Prévenir et combattre la violence et le harcèlement dans le secteur maritime", published in La Presse de Tunisie
  • Federico Fubini for the article 'In the Suez funnel, Houthi-West 1 to 0. The Costs for the Mediterranean", published in L'Economia - Corriere della Sera
  • The MBC - Servicios Audiovisuales editorial staff of the Spanish TV programme "Curiosity" for the episode "La Naturaleza se abre paso", broadcast on the national network RTVE
  • Fausto Biloslavo for the multimedia reportage in the Red Sea for freedom of navigation from Mare Nostrum published in Il Giornale and Panorama.

The "Cavaliere del Lavoro Guido Grimaldi" special prize, established by the Grimaldi family in memory of the founder of the Grimaldi Group, was awarded to journalist Roberto D'Antonio.
Secretary-General Michele Capasso, in presenting the award to Fausto Biloslavo, said he was moved by his familiarity with the war journalist since his time in the former Yugoslavia.

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Women Artists, Writers and Journalists sign the Kimiyya manifesto

Elena Rossi, Martina Giacca, Volha Marosava, Anna Copertino and Francesca Pinzari signed the Kimiyya Manifesto on women's rights.
Welcomed by SG Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari, they expressed their satisfaction with this action of the United States of the World, which is indispensable for women's rights.

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Visit to the Shrine of Jaddico

At the conclusion of the G7 in Savelletri, Secretary-General Michele Capasso visited the Shrine of Jaddico, dedicated to "Mary Mother of the Church". With the priests, he retraced the steps of the sacred place.
Almost sixty years after its construction, the Shrine today acquires a new value, a renewed sense of faith. Built in 1965 by Brindisi city policeman Teodoro D'Amici, the shrine has always been a place of extraordinary manifestations of the Virgin Mary, particularly around an ancient crusader wall with an image of the Madonna, which was then blessed. The archbishop at the time, Monsignor Nicola Margiotta, who was in Rome for the closing of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, delegated the vicar general Monsignor Armando Franco to preside over the rite, which was attended by an immense crowd. It was the first church in the world dedicated to "Mary Mother of the Church".
In recent decades, the Shrine of Jaddico has increasingly become a place of peace and spiritual refreshment for the many who stop by the church every day to pray - as it is open day and night - arriving from everywhere.

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Pope Francis at the G7

It has certainly changed the history of the G7, the presence of Pope Francis in Fasano di Puglia, but perhaps also that of the pontificate: the first non-European Pope in the assembly of the so-called Greats of the Western world. And at the moment of greatest crisis, with two wars - among the many - of global scope underway, both at the centre of an incessant preaching of peace accompanied by the most intense diplomatic action implemented by the Holy See in recent times.
"It is my birthday," said the Secretary-General of the United States of the World, Michele Capasso, who was present in Puglia, "just as Chancellor Sholtz and the American flag (born in 1777) are celebrating today: the presence of Pope Francis is the most beautiful gift.
For Pope Francis's G7 no chair was prepared, but only a chair at the common working table, and on an assigned topic, Artificial Intelligence, important and perhaps decisive for the future, but still of a limited nature.
It was therefore not a usual condition, but Francis went further, to the point of transforming the event into a symbolic turning point: the pope not seated on any podium, but seated side by side with the "powerful", ready to pay their due homage, even to the point of standing in line for an audience lasting only a few minutes. A manner not taken for granted by the rulers of a time that, although deeply marked by secularisation, continues to express the need for confrontation, if not guidance, on the essential questions not only of politics but of life as a whole.

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