Editing Focolare Movement (section)

==Development==
In November 1956, an [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|uprising of the Hungarian people]] was brutally suppressed. Chiara responded by calling for an army of volunteers for the cause of God, "volunteers of God": "A certain society has attempted to erase the name of God, the reality of God, the providence of God and the love of God from people's hearts. There has to be a society that can put God back in his rightful place (...). A society that witnesses to only one name: God."<ref>Cf. C. Lubich, I volontari di Dio, in "Città Nuova" (1957), anno II n. 1 /, in C. Lubich, Attualità, leggere il proprio tempo edited by M. Zanzucchi, Città Nuova, Rome 2013, pp. 11-13</ref> Thus, the "volunteers of God" came to life, the first of 18 branches within the Focolare Movement.

Groups met according to their area of engagement and, with Chiara's inspiration, began centers for politics, economy, medicine, and art. These later developed into a wider movement that Chiara launched in 1968 with the name "For a New Society" and later changed to "New Humanity.<ref name=Gallagher/>

The Focolare Movement has branched out to address a variety of groups including families, youth, and different religions. Special projects have sprung up within the movement, such as the "Abba" school,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.focolare.org/en/all-opera/studio-e-formazione/scuola-abba/|title=Scuola Abbà | date=27 July 2010|website = Foculare Movement |access-date=13 July 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> ''Young People for a United World'' (now [[Youth for a United World]]), Teens4unity,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.teens4unity.org/|title=Teens4Unity|website=www.teens4unity.org|language=it-IT|access-date=12 July 2017}}</ref> [[Economy of Communion in Freedom|Economy of Communion]] (involving 800 companies), evangelism within small cities, social work, the [[Igino Giordani]] Centre,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iginogiordani.info/en/the-centre.html|title=Igino Giordani - Foco|website=www.iginogiordani.info|language=en-gb|access-date=12 July 2017}}</ref> and 27 publishing houses.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://christusimperat.org/en/node/14050|title=The Focolare Movement {{!}} МСІ-Milites Christi Imperatoris|website=christusimperat.org|language=en|access-date=12 July 2017}}</ref> Pope Francis in praising Economy of Communion called on it to change "the rules of the game of the socio-economic system."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/02/04/pope_francis_change_the_rules_of_the_socio-economic_system/1290369|title=Pope Francis: Try to change the rules of the socio-economic system|access-date=12 July 2017|language=en}}</ref> John L. Allen Jr. has observed that it is hard to "pick a fight with a ''focolarino''. They tend to be open, ego-free, and just relentlessly nice."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/memo-divided-church-meet-focolare|title=Memo to a divided church: Meet the Focolare|date=10 March 2011|work=National Catholic Reporter|access-date=12 July 2017}}</ref>

The president of the Focolare Movement, who is always a [[Catholic laity|Catholic lay woman]]<ref name=":2" /> is Margaret Karaam, who succeeded the second president (after Chiara Lubich) [[Maria Voce]] in 2021.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/02/13/churchs-most-powerful-woman-focuses-on-unity/|title=Church's most powerful woman focuses on unity|work=Crux|date=13 February 2015|access-date=26 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527111613/http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/02/13/churchs-most-powerful-woman-focuses-on-unity/|archive-date=27 May 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.focolare.org/en/news/2011/01/20/maria-voce/|title=Maria Voce|publisher=Focolare Movement}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/30619/francis-gives-focolare-three-words-as-the-movement-is-renewed|title=Francis gives Focolare three words, as the movement is renewed|agency=Catholic News Agency|access-date=12 July 2017}}</ref> In accordance of the female presidency there is a male vice-president, at this moment Jésus Moran.