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 […]
Homily of Don Marco Gnavi, pastor of Santa Maria in Trastevere, at the Prayer on July 29th, in communion with the Church of France, after the attack in wchih father Jacques Hamel was killed. Genesis 9, 1-7 Tonight, here in Santa Maria in Trastevere and wherever the Community of Sant’Egidio is present in Europe, we […]
Notwithstanding the drop in the political attention, the situation for refugees camped out on the border between Serbia and Hungary is very difficult. In the month, a delegation of the Community of Sant’Egidio of Budapest went to visit the refugees living along the wall that divides the two countries: still today the stage of tragedies, […]
The primary “School of Peace” is growing and becoming more beautiful. It was opened in Nyumanzi Refugees Settlement, near Adjumani, North Uganda a little more than two years ago thanks to the commitment of the Community of Sant’Egidio and Arua Diocese. The construction of a new classroom block has been finally completed thanks to the […]