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 […]
Today is the 7th anniversary of the death of William Quijano, a young man of the Community of Sant’Egidio in El Salvador who was killed at the age of 21 in 2009 because of his work in the School of Peace with children in a difficult periphery of San Salvador. The entire Community of Sant’Egidio […]
[slideshow_deploy id=’2198′] On September 17th, dozens of youth from all around the United States gathered for the first American National Youth for Peace Meeting in Washington DC. Following the Georgetown Day for Peace – two days of interfaith dialogue held by Georgetown University with the help of the Community of Sant’Egidio – the Youth gathered […]
“A cold and windy day, but filled with light.” So Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of Sant’Egidio, commemorates the historic Day of Prayer for Peace convened by Pope John Paul II in Assisi thirty years ago. For Riccardi, the “simple and profound intuition” of John Paul II indicated a big news: the religious leaders […]