On May 24th, 2016 the conference “East-West. Dialogue of Civilizations,” promoted by the Community of Sant’Egidio, the University of Al-Azhar (Cairo), and the Muslim Council of Elders, was held in Paris at the Salle des Arcades Hotel de Ville. It was the second stop in Europe of a movement of dialogue carried out by the […]
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“It is a touching speech that shakes Europe from its resignation and from its fears, and inviting everyone to unite to his dream and to work towards a new European humanism.” Andrea Riccardi commented on the speech by Pope Francis during the award of the prestigious Charlemagne Prize. From the Sala Regia of the Vatican […]
The plane landed at Fiumicino Airport at 7 o’clock this morning, with the families of Syrian refugees on board that, thanks to the humanitarian corridors, had crossed the Mediterranium safely. They come from Homs, Aleppo, Hama and Hassaka, near the Iraqi border, not far from Mosul. Among them a family that fled from Iraq. This […]
The Community has emphasized the importance of birth registration several times, especially in many African countries, where many children live without the state even knowing it, so without a legally recognized identity, and consequently no rights, not even the most basic freedom . This tragedy happens in Maroua, in northern Cameroon, where two young men, […]
Hundreds of young people all in Rome these days for the Jubilee of Children, gathered in a tent in the Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere to hear the testimony of the Youth for Peace on the works of mercy to which it is dedicated: providing lodging for pilgrims and consoling the afflicted. Youth for Peace […]