MED 25 - Beautiful Hope

The School of Peace

in the Mediterranean

Welcome aboard!

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8 months of navigation, 30 ports, 200 young people

In the spirit of the Mediterranean Meetings of Bari (2020), Florence (2022), Marseille (2023) and Tirana (2024), the association Mar Yam, the association Beautiful Hope - AJD and theDiocesan Association of Marseille organize the MED 25 - Bel Espoir odyssey.

From March to October 2025, a peace training ship will sail the Mediterranean, connecting the five shores. On board, eight groups of twenty-five young people of all nationalities, cultures and religions are committed to peace.

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Session 6 - August 2025

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news to read

“This is the way I believe the world can be healed”

Testimony of Malkon, a young Palestinian who participated in the session between Istanbul and Athens. He shares his convictions and his journey with us during the Peace Ceremony held in Athens on July 18. From the Ashes of Genocides to the light of…

“Our common house, a place to start”, Aurora

Notes from the intervention of Aurora, a young participant in session 5 at the round table organized by Marios Attala in Athens on 18 July. She delivers a message on the link between dialogue and integral ecology. Dialogue and cooperation for peace and…

“The road we carry” Poem By Bernard Caruana OP  

The following poem was presented by the vicar general of the diocese of Tirana, Father Bernard Caruana at the inaugural conference of session 6. The Road We Carry This poem reflects the emotional and physical journey of migrants who leave their homes behind…

“True peace is not when the war ends — true peace is when the divisions end”

Dzeneta, a young woman participating in session 5 between Istanbul and Athens testifies to the reconstruction of her country after the war, during the Peace Ceremony held in Athens on July 18, 2025. “The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which lasted from 1992 to…

“I heard the Mediterranean whisper a secret at dawn” poem by the youth

Here is a poem that the young people of session 5 wrote and shared during the peace ceremony held on July 18 in Athens. [Voice 1] I heard the Mediterranean whisper a secret at dawn, [Voice 2] as the sails pulled us gently from…

"We will ask forgiveness from this sea that is ours"

Welcoming address by Bishop Vartan Kirakos Kazanjian at the Armenian Cathedral, Saturday, July 5. Learning from the sea, a call to purification and brotherhood. "Your Eminence, Your Excellencies, dear bishops and priests, beloved brothers and sisters, and young people…

“Dialogue is not an optional choice, it is an evangelical obligation”

Welcoming address by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, on July 6, 2025, in Phanar on the occasion of the visit of the young people of session 5, Environment and Development. » Your Eminence, dear Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, Archbishop of Marseille and President of the Conference of…

8 sessions
from March to October 2025

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Barcelona Tetouan

1 – 15 March 2025
Dialogue of cultures

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Palermo Bizerte

March 29 – April 13, 2025
Education and society

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Valletta Chania

April 26 – May 11, 2025
Women in the Mediterranean

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Nicosia Jounieh

June 6 – June 21, 2025 The peoples in…

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Istanbul Athens

July 5 – July 20, 2025
Environment and development

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Durres Trieste

August 4 – August 17, 2025
Migration challenges

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Ravenna Bari

August 30 – September 14, 2025
Eastern and Western Christianity

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Naples Marseille

October 11 – 26, 2025
Building peace

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