
Parish at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport – Giovanni Soccorsi
focus | best practice A parish at Rome’s Fiumicono Airport Lives in Transit Giovanni Soccorsi The parish at Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Fiumicino (Rome)

focus | best practice A parish at Rome’s Fiumicono Airport Lives in Transit Giovanni Soccorsi The parish at Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Fiumicino (Rome)

In an age of growing secularization, Manuel María Bru Alonso proposes that the future of evangelization lies not in larger institutions but in creative, welcoming communities that embody communion, synodality and missionary witness through relationships, prayer and service.

Drawing on an accompaniment initiative within the Focolare Movement, Ansgar Bock and Gabriele Müller show how tensions and conflicts, when addressed with trust, honesty and mutual listening, can become opportunities for growth, deeper communion and renewed community life.

The “Always a Person” (Sempre Persona) project accompanies prisoners and families through relationships, restoring dignity, fostering hope, and revealing Christ in each encounter, as volunteers walk alongside those in prison and beyond.