Pope Francis today, at Casa Santa Marta, where he lives, had lunch with a group of 21 Syrian refugees that today live in Rome, hosted by the Community of Sant’Egidio. These are the families that arrived to Italy after the Pope’s visit to the Island of Lesbo in Greece. The first group of refugees came […]
Three days without borders, in its third edition, is the first ever three-day course of games, integration and fun, organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio and Youth for Peace. The name of the manifestation captures in it the profound message, which the three days are intended to promote. Three humane days, active days, days so […]
Rome – Friday, August 5th, the 9:30 am, in the square of the Pantheon in Rome, on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the tragedy of Hiroshima, the board ‘Earth and Peace’, for the 19th consecutive year hosts a celebration in memory of that tragic event that leaves an open wound in the history […]
Tonight in Krakow, in the first station of the Via Crucis with Pope Francis, almost two dozen Youth of the Sant’Egidio from Italy, Argentina, Ukraine, and Pakistan, carried the cross alongside several Syrian refugees and Polish couple who until not long ago was living on the street. Some of their stories and comments, directly from the […]
From July 19th to July 26th, the Community of Sant’Egidio of Uvira, Bukavu, and Goma in the region of Kivu of the Democratic Republic of Congo, celebrated the Jubilee of the Mercy with children and elderly. The passage through the Holy Door was an occasion to renew the alliance between generations, young and old and […]