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The Life Of Mae

An article written by Dani Clark, a Washington DC community member, on her visits with Mae in the nursing home has been published in the America Magazine.  

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Only love can change the world: It is the conviction affirmed by the 2000 Youth for Peace of Sant’Egidio gathered in Blantyre

At a conference with Marco Impagliazzo, they discussed the theme of friendship as a way to  address the problems of life and the world around them. About 2000 Youth for Peace of Blantyre gathered for a meeting entitled “Only Love  Can Change the World” with Marco Impagliazzo. They are youth from high schools,  some engaged […]

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Ukraine: The Forum of Solidarity of the Youth for Peace in Lviv

“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 […]

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Jubilee of Children: Sant’Egidio opens its doors to a concrete experience of mercy for young people

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 […]

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Three families of Syrian refugees hosted by Pope Francis in Vatican. Sant’Egidio provides first welcome

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. […]