Professor Andrea Riccardi: “I launch an appeal for Aleppo. Something terrible is unfolding. And it is being ignored…” I launch an appeal for Aleppo. Something terrible is unfolding. And it is ignored. Or people watch on, hopeless. It is two years that people have been fighting in Aleppo. In July 2012 the battle began in […]
By John L. Allen Jr. of The Boston Globe ROME – Political categories are an inexact fit for religious realities, but if we’re going to use them anyway, it’s tough to spot a bigger winner in Catholicism under Pope Francis than the Community of Sant’Egidio, whose commitment to the poor, to inter-religious dialogue, and to […]
Peace, fight against religious intolerance and the death penalty at the centre of the A delegation of the Community of Sant’Egidio led by Marco Impagliazzo went to the United Nations headquarters in New York, where it was welcomed by the Deputy Secretary-General, Ian Eliasson, with whom the Community has collaborated for many years. Marco Impagliazzo […]
Today Andrea Riccardi was awarded the Honoris Causa degree in Humane Letters by the Catholic University of America. The ceremony was held during the opening session of the 125th academic year of the Ateneo, founded by the American episcopate and recognised as a Pontifical University by the Vatican. In the reasons for the recognition, conferred […]
Brinton Wood Nursing Home together with the U.S. Community of Sant’Egidio Many friends of the U.S. Community of Sant’Egidio met at the Brinton Wood Nursing Home where Bishop Vincenzo Paglia celebrated the Sunday liturgy. The liturgy was also attended by Andrea Riccardi and Marco Impagliazzo who later had a friendly and joyous meeting with the […]