The morning of August 6, 1945, while still evening in New York City, the atomic bomb was dropped for the first time on Hiroshima. Japanese military authorities decided not to accept the terms of surrender and instead imposed martial law to avoid any possibility of peace talks. On August 9, 1945, the second atomic bomb […]
On Saturday June 11, members of the Community of Sant’Egidio around the United States attended the March for Our Lives in their respective cities. As Pope Francis said, “it is time to say enough to the indiscriminate trafficking of arms.” Indeed, our country has been racked by the violence of firearms. In instances of mass […]
On 19 June, on a very hot day, but cooled in the shade of the trees of Central Park, the Community of Sant’Egidio in New York gathered with its friends on the street for our annual Summer Picnic. After the difficult year the pandemic has caused, many joined in gratitude and joy for the opportunity to […]
End of Year Celebration at the School of Peace in the Bronx, NY It was with great joy that almost 40 gathered on June 26 to celebrate the end of the school year at the School of Peace in the Bronx. This year was a challenging year for all us, but there is no doubt […]
Stop the Executions! The Community of Sant’Egidio deplores the rapid executions of seven people by the US federal government in the last three months. Together with the US Catholic Bishops, we call for a moratorium of the US federal death penalty. We call for an end to the death penalty in all the US states where […]