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“Beauty heals!” Pope Francis opens a new house for the homeless near the colonnade of St. Peter’s

On the eve of the 3rd World Day of the Poor, in the afternoon of today, 15 November 2019 at 17.00h, the Holy Father visited and inaugurated a new day-and-night welcoming centre in Palazzo Migliori, a few metres from the Colonnade of St. Peter’s. The new center has been entrusted to the Almoner of His Holiness and […]

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Thanksgiving 2019

The Community of Sant’Egidio in New York is excited to invite you to our annual Thanksgiving lunch! Every year, the Community brings together our friends from across the city in a wonderful encounter of joy, friendship, and celebration. From those we have met at Grand Central to elderly friends we have known for many years, […]

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Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue

The Community of Sant’Egidio announces the launching of a new initiative, the Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue. The Foundation has, at its core, Sant’Egidio’s mission for peace throughout the world, keeping Ps. 34:14, “Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it” at its heart.  The Foundation will be based in New York […]

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Prayer in memory of the four homeless individuals killed in New York

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Don Matteo’s First Mass as Cardinal on Piazza S. Maria in Trastevere

A crowded square of Santa Maria in Trastevere welcomed Don Matteo, Mons. Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologne, former parish priest of the church dedicated to the Virgin situated in the heart of Trastevere, for his first liturgy as a Cardinal. The Mass was held in the square in order to enable everyone to salute him: a […]