On the day of the evacuation of Calais, we welcome those who run away from the war: these are the words that Andrea Riccardi said while welcoming the Syrian refugees arrived this morning in Rome with the humanitarian corridors. Along with the founder of the Sant’Egidio Community, there was the Italian Minister of foreign Affairs […]
“The commandment “thou shall not kill” has absolute value and pertains to the innocent as well as the guilty… The capital punishment is unacceptable, however serious the condemned’s crime may have been. It is an offence to the inviolability of life and to the dignity of the human person which contradicts God’s plan for man […]
It’s been 24 years since that October 4, 1992, feast of St. Francis. That day, in Rome, a general agreement of peace was signed. The agreement ended the civil war that had generated much suffering in Mozambique. A peace born in a small convent in the center of Rome, where a Christian community, still very […]
Three years have passed since that horrific day on October 3, 2013 when 368 people, predominantly Eritrean women and children, lost their lives in a shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa. It was a tragedy that demonstrated to the world the drama of those who flee their countries, driven by the hope of finding peace […]
In this historic days for Colombia, who after 52 years of war and more than 220 thousand dead has finally reached a peace agreement, even children adopted at a distance celebrate. The Community of Sant’Egidio has been present in Colombia since 2004 with the program of long distance adoptions, sustaining hundreds of children in the […]