A delegation from the "United States of the World" and the "Fondazione Mediterraneo" participated in the celebrations and Holy Mass on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the painting of the Blessed Virgin of Pompeii.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Pope's legate for this historic occasion, celebrated Holy Mass and announced an upcoming visit by Pope Leo XIV.
At the end of the celebration, Cardinal Parolin knelt before the painting of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary.

A delegation from the "United States of the World", the "Fondazione Mediterraneo" and the "Kimiyya" network participated in the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP 30): the largest global event for discussions and negotiations on climate change, held in Belém, Pará, from 10 to 21 November 2025.
The chosen city, in the heart of the Amazon, provided the world with a unique opportunity to discuss climate solutions, strengthen multilateralism and promote consensus on global goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Italy is taking action, in line with the Paris Agreement, by supporting cross-sectoral solutions and building resilient partnerships, with the aim of contributing to the management of the ever-increasing risks associated with climate change.
Currently, there are 198 Parties (197 countries plus the European Union) to the Convention.
A week of consultations between the Brazilian presidency and other countries at COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, has failed to make any progress in overcoming the still conflicting positions on three issues: climate ambition, finance and trade barriers.
"The stakes are too high to allow procedural tactics or deadlocked discussions to hinder progress", warned COP 30 President André Corrêa do Lago, a Brazilian diplomat, acknowledging the limited progress made since Monday. Do Lago announced the publication of a “note” that will simply summarise each country's position, with the aim of “structuring our talks”: a sort of to-do list for ministers arriving in Belém on Monday for the final five days of talks.
Countries will “decide how to proceed”, the diplomat said.
"The planet, said Secretary General Michele Capasso, ’is once again being sacrificed for the economic interests of the great powers: the cry of alarm here in the Amazon to stop the destruction of the earth has been in vain".

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, and Miguel Angel Moratinos, Secretary-General of the United Nations, High Representative of the Alliance of Civilisations and Special Envoy for the fight against Islamophobia, have written the prefaces to Michele Capasso's book ‘UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD. A TRUE STORY OF GOD’.
Thirteen hundred pages recounting the main stages of the mission undertaken forty years ago with the “United States of the World” and the “Fondazione Mediterraneo” for dialogue and peace: a web of sensations, emotions and memories interwoven with articles, essays, videos and reflections that the author has published over the years in newspapers and periodicals in various countries around the world.
It is the story of a uniquely human experience, at a historic moment when the Mediterranean, at the turn of two millennia, took on strategic importance for peace and shared development.
Fratricidal wars, destruction of creation, climate change, forced migration, ecological disasters, lack of democracy and corruption are some of the causes that threaten the lives of people on every continent. Michele Capasso takes action against these and other issues by urging people not to give up, as evidenced by the stories told in this book with simple and effective writing: it is a mix of narrative and reportage, where everything is strictly true and verifiable in documents, videos and images.
The overall meaning of the narrative is to highlight, at the crossroads of global society, the great strength that human beings have been able to develop in their connection with the earth, its inhabitants and the sea, facing the adversities of every historical period without ever losing faith in tomorrow.

A delegation from the "United States of the World" and the "Fondazione Mediterraneo" participated in the solemn inauguration ceremony of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo (GEM).
The first GEM project was presented in Naples on 3 September 2003, at the headquarters of the United States of the World, by the then Egyptian Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni (now the emotional presenter of the completed work!) and Mrs Suzanne Mubarak.
"An important moment, said Secretary-General Michele Capasso, which saw our institution among the first to support this unique museum, with the conviction that only culture can consolidate peace".
The world's largest museum dedicated to ancient Egypt, after more than twenty years, is now open and will attract more than five million tourists a year. Located next to the Pyramids of Giza, it contains 50,000 artefacts and is one of the mega-projects commissioned by President Abdel el Sissi.
The complex, designed by two architectural firms, Ireland's Heneghan Peng and Germany's Atelier Brückner, is located two kilometres from the Pyramids of Giza, so much so that it has been called “the fourth pyramid”.