“Before coming here I thought that solidarity was an abstract idea, now I understand that you can live like this every day, with so many friends of the Movement of the Youth for Peace!”. These are the words of a boy from Kiev that sum up well the “Forum of Solidarity”, an event that has […]
Author: Anna Bartoli
In the year of the Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis invited young people between 13 to 16 in Rome for the Jubilee of Children held from April 23 to April 25. There will be a tent in seven squares in the historic center of Rome, each one dedicated to one of the spiritual and corporal […]
Coming back from the Greek island of Lesbos, Pope Francis has taken on his plane three families of refugees from Syria fleeing form war. They are 12 people- 6 of them are children – who will be hosted in Vatican. They come from bombed cities, had lost everything and are in a very precarious condition. […]
The Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue Conference “A path to Peace” held in Buenos Aires – sponsored by the Episcopal Conference of Argentina, the Latin-American Rabbinical Seminary of Rabbi Abraham Skorka, Islamic organization for Peace, and the Community of Sant ‘ Egidio – was concluded today. At the conference, which has received the praise and appreciation […]
The founder of Sant’Egidio said on Famiglia Cristiana: “we must convene an ecumenical council of European Christians. The Churches can not remain prisoners of institutional logics or politics of their countries. No to walls; welcoming is a duty” The founder of the Sant’Egidio Community, Andrea Riccardi – underlining the urgent message that we must welcome those who […]