A series of international meetings of the "Bishops friends of the Focolare Movement" began, initially promoted by Mons. Klaus Hemmerle, Bishop of Aachen (Germany), to deepen the spirituality of unity and live an experience of "Effective and affective" collegiality. Bishop Hemmerle was considered by Chiara Lubich as a co-founder, both for his doctrinal contribution, and for establishing the branch of the Bishops who have spiritual ties with the Focolare Movement. This branch was recognized with papal approval in 1998. In 1982, at the request of John Paul II, the first international meeting of "Bishops friends of the Focolare Movement", of various Churches and ecclesial communities took place. On September 25, 2021, Pope Francis received the bishops friends of the Focolare, at the Hall of the Popes in the Vatican, encouraging them to "Live unity, the heart of Chiara Lubich's charism, a charism that grew by attracting men and women of every language and nation with the strength of God's love that creates unity not by nullifying differences, but rather by enhancing

Chiara Lubich was appointed as a consultant to the Pontifical Council for the Laity. She participated in the Extraordinary Synod for the twentieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council. She was later invited to the Synod on the Vocation and Mission of the Laity in 1987 and to the Synod for Europe in 1990.

In London, Chiara received the Templeton Prize "For Progress in religion". The ceremony was attended by representatives of many religions and dialogue began with followers of other religions.

On 2 May 1996, in Naples, Chiara laid the groundwork for the Politics for Unity Movement. She invited a group of politicians, even though they belonged to different groups, to make fraternity the basis of their lives and their political commitment. She later expounded the pioneering lines of this proposal in parliamentary settings in Brazil, Italy, Spain, England, Slovenia and at a symposium at the U.N. in New York. Adapting the words of John Chrysostom, Chiara referred to the penetration of evangelical Wisdom in the most diverse human environments, as “inundations”, from which a sociology, a philosophy, a new theology emerge and, as an effect of communitarian spirituality, "the fountains of the Holy Spirit flood the most varied human realities”: the economic sphere, with the Economy of Communion characterized by a strong social sense; or the political sphere, with the Politics for Unity Movement which aims to direct political commitment towards the realization of the unity of the human family[1].