Rome Newsroom, Feb 2, 2021 / 07:00 am
The Focolare Movement has elected Margaret Karram as the new president of the international Catholic organization.
Karram is an Arab Catholic originally from the Holy Land with a strong commitment to interreligious dialogue. She has received the Mount Zion Award for Reconciliation and the St. Rita International Award for her work in promoting dialogue between Christians, Jewish people, and Muslims.
She will be the third president to lead the Focolare Movement, a Catholic organization focused on the principles of unity and fraternity. According to the movement's statutes, its president must always be a woman, specifically a consecrated woman with perpetual vows.
"Hers is to be, above all, a presidency of love because she must be the first in loving and, therefore, in serving her own brothers and sisters, remembering the words of Jesus: 'Whoever wishes to be first among you must be the servant of all,'" according to the statutes.