The United States of the World celebrated "World Water Day" in various cities on five continents. In particular, at the institutional headquarters in Naples, Secretary-General Michele Capasso emphasised the urgency of protecting water resources, especially at this difficult time in human history characterised by wars, pandemics, social injustice and climate change. The scientists present relaunched the United States of the World Appeal for universal collaboration to reduce drought disasters, using examples of good practice such as Israeli technologies for desalinating seawater.
A delegation of the "United States of the World" participated in the demonstration for the "United States of Europe" in Rome. Here is the statement by Secretary-General Michele Capasso: ‘For those who, like me, have been fighting to establish the "UNITED STATES OF EUROPE" within the framework of the "UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD" for forty years, with the help of my late brotherly friend Gerardo Marotta. For those who, like me, have put every effort and every resource into warning of the danger for the new generations without a political Europe with common defence, foreign policy and economy. For those who, like me, have appealed to all the presidents of the European Commission and Parliament since 1990.
The United States of the World celebrated "International Women's Day" 2025 by dedicating it to Ukrainian women: innocent victims of a fratricidal war in the heart of Europe. Throughout the day, the Peace Museum's 107 large videowalls projected images of Ukrainian women whose dignity and lives have been violated. To NOT FORGET what increasingly appears to be a tragedy of immense proportions. President Capasso thus addressed the women in attendance and those connected webinar: "We want to dedicate this March 8, 2025 to the Ukrainian women who resist, who heal, who flee, who fight for life, who cry, who stand against Putin's war, who hope for Europe, who ask us to help them. The images of Ukrainian women victims of the war flash before our eyes now unaccustomed to this spectacle in the heart of Europe: thousands dead, hundreds of thousands relocated or exiled, towns and villages in ruins, bridges and buildings destroyed by gunfire, monuments of culture or faith desecrated, violence and humiliation of all kinds, countless existences of simple people mutilated or torn apart forever. Human suffering cannot be summarized. Can one go beyond it? This question is addressed at the same time to Russia that invaded Ukraine but also to those who have done so little to stop this war in the heart of Europe. What can we say, in the face of such a tragedy, of a UN unsuited to the changes in our world with bureaucratic rules and vetoes that prevent real peacekeeping action; of a NATO that has remained a prisoner of archaic defense models; of a European Union that cares so little about the rest of Europe except for economic needs and following the law of markets and merchants; of a Russia trying to take back the place of the former Soviet Union by using force and violence, of all these games barely disguised by the great powers and their interests? Agreements constantly betrayed, pacts mocked and negotiators made fools of, international resolutions ignored, humanitarian convoys themselves become targets of deadly rage. Russia has provoked a war in the heart of Europe, against a "Brother Country"-Ukraine. A European war that is being waged according to archaic and despotic criteria contrary to any logic. A morally illegitimate war with no legal basis. A war above all fought by causing humiliation, suffering, genocide, violations, planned and pre-announced massacres whose victims are essentially women and children. On this day we want to pay tribute to the women of Ukraine to whom our thoughts and help go. Let us again throw a bottle into our sea with a common appeal intended for what remains of consciences on our shores".
Secretary-General Michele Capasso participated in the presentation of the book written by the Bishop of Assisi Domenico Sorrentino entitled ‘CARLO ACUTIS. SULLE ORME DI FRANCESCO E CHIARA D'ASSISI - Originali e non fotocopie’ (Edizioni Francescane italiane), held in Naples and Scampia. During his speech, Michele Capasso recalled the similar Vesuvian origins with Bishop Domenico (Boscotrecase and San Sebastiano al Vesuvio), the figure of his father Raffaele (Mayor of Reconstruction) and the appointment of Carlo Acutis as Ambassador to the United States of the World. Concluding his speech, Capasso emphasised the importance of the forthcoming opening of the emotional itinerary dedicated to Carlo Acutis in the MAMT Museum of Peace with a chapel dedicated to him, which will join those with the relics of Don Bosco, Mother Mazzarello, John Paul II, Padre Pio and Mother Teresa of Calcutta. At the end there was an exchange of books with dedications: ‘Raffaele, the Mayor’ to Don Domenico and ‘Carlo Acutis’ to Michele.
A preparatory meeting was held to coordinate the events planned for the year 2025 under the "PEACE IS ACTION" programme. ‘The current historical moment is tragically based on the words "war", "rearmament of Europe", strengthening of nuclear arsenals: the word PEACE no longer exists except rarely in the heartfelt appeals of Pope Francis and a few enlightened statesmen: hence the urgency of making every effort to reaffirm the inescapable value of PEACE as a guarantee of humanity's survival’. This is the summary of the concluding communiqué. Among the initiatives is collaboration with the United Nations UNAOC Peace Programme.
