Friday 23 December 2016

Manila, Philippines - "Then they opened their treasures and offered gifts" ...

The Community of Sant'Egidio and the Lord who is coming. 

A gift for each and every one at the Christmas lunch, a thought and personalized gift ...

Thursday 22 December 2016

Mtwara, Tanzania - "Let's go and see the event the Lord has made us know"

The Community of Sant'Egidio and the Lord who is coming. 

A Christmas lunch that is announced in all the languages of the world ....

Wednesday 21 December 2016

Rome, Italy - The children's crib in the streets of the suburbs ...

The Community of Sant'Egidio and the Lord who is coming. 

A living Nativity scene set up by the children of the School of Peace in the streets of Primavalle and Montespaccato areas.

Tuesday 20 December 2016

Mbabane, Swaziland - If you can't wait for living the Christmas lunch ...

The Community of Sant'Egidio and the Lord who is coming. 

Some Christmas lunches are a bit in advance ....

Monday 19 December 2016

Lagos, Nigeria - An invitation you can not refuse ...

The Community of Sant'Egidio and the Lord who comes. 

Invitations for Christmas lunch ....

Friday 16 December 2016

London, United Kingdom - Approaching the Christmas lunch ...

The Community of Sant'Egidio and the Lord who is going to come. 

In London community members are preparing the decorations for the hall that will host the Christmas lunch with the poor.

Thursday 15 December 2016

Lima, Peru - A meeting that gives warmth and confidence ...

The Community of Sant'Egidio and the outskirts. 

The beauty of the meeting, in the evening, in the old town square, with the people living on the street. The gratitude and the joy of those who realize themselves no longer invisible. The discovery, for everyone, that you are not alone in a not easy world.

Wednesday 14 December 2016

Goma, Dem. Rep. of Congo - Together you can go further ...

The Community of Sant'Egidio and the poor. 
May Christian love be "concrete, with the works of mercy", a love "touching the flesh of Christ," said Pope Francis recently. 

Some days ago the Community of Goma has brought a wheelchair to Godelive, a woman 104 years old (an age truly remarkable in Congo!). Let her keep moving towards the future!

Monday 12 December 2016

Rome, Italy - Italian and Chinese people, a prayer against violence ...

The Community of Sant'Egidio and prayer. 

In the church of St. Vitus in Esquilino area the Community of Sant'Egidio, along with many Chinese people, national ones and Italians of Chinese origin, prayed yesterday for the young woman Zhang Yao, a student who died tragically as a result of a robbery.

Sunday 11 December 2016

Ostia, Italy - The strength of the years (and of a thousand other fragilities across lifetime)

Yesterday in Ostia, near Rome, the President of the Community of Sant'Egidio, Marco Impagliazzo, presented the awards for the top rated works of the exhibition "The strength of the years". 

It gathered the fruit of the work of the Community Art Laboratories.
Dozens of artists with disabilities had worked along the past year on the themes of old age and on the possibility of living at home, not in an institution, the last part of everyone's life, following the motto "Let's close whatever closes" .

Saturday 10 December 2016

Comayagua, Honduras - Gestures against the death penalty

The Community of Sant'Egidio and the commitment against death penalty. 

In many places in the world, in recent days, initiatives and ceremonies have sought to explain the inhumanity of capital punishment, that there is no justice without a protection of life.

Wednesday 7 December 2016

Lecce, Italy - Friend hands, friend hearts, in a house for the elderly ...

The Community of Sant'Egidio and the poor. 

In a house for the elderly, where loneliness makes life a sad path, the miracle of friendship, which breaks down every wall, leaves behind all kinds of indifference. To visit the elderly, for young people, is a gift, an opportunity to discover the strength of the years, the power of sharing.

Monday 5 December 2016

Madrid, Spain - Words against the death penalty ...

The Community of Sant'Egidio and the commitment against death penalty. 

In many places in the world, in recent days, speeches and conferences have sought to explain the inhumanity of capital punishment, that there is no justice without a protection of life (in the picture Tamara Chikunova, mother of a young man executed in Uzbekistan, speaks in a high school in Madrid).

Friday 2 December 2016

Rome, Italy - Safe and sound with the #humanitariancorridors ...

The Community of Sant'Egidio and peace.
The experience of the humanitarian corridors is one year old. Its anniversary has been celebrated by welcoming other men, women and children fleeing the war that has bloodied Syria (in the picture the arrival at Fiumicino airport). 

Thanks to Sant'Egidio, to the Waldensian Board, to the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy, 100 new people have been able to find a peaceful landing place without risking their lives in the Mediterranean Sea.

Thursday 1 December 2016

Rome, Italy - An artistic and cultural center in the town far eastern outskirts ...

The Community of Sant'Egidio and the outskirts. 
In the far eastern outskirts of the Italian capital, in Tor Bella Monaca area, a small artistic and cultural center was born, with a nice museum. 

It's a complex of activities and initiatives (in the picture the painting workshop) which refer to the "Friends", a movement of disabled people, expression of the Community's link with many stories of difficulty and hardship that find in the involvement with art their own ransom and a way to the future.