Madrid, Spain - Testimonials on the death penalty

Many communities of Sant'Egidio, like that of Madrid, in the picture, organized meetings in these days of testimony and awareness against the death penalty.

Rome, Italy - Remembering Abish, child victim of terrorism ...

In the basilica of San Bartolomeo in Rome, memorial church of the martyrs of the 20th and 21st century, has been remembered Abish, ten years. He attended the School of Peace of the Community of Sant'Egidio in Lahore, Pakistan, and was victim of the blind violence of terrorism in the attack made against the catholic parish of the neighborhood of Yohannabad last March. 

As shown in his classwork copybook of the School of Peace, he dreamt of the world as a better place.

Genoa, Italy - "Responding to the culture of death reaffirming the sanctity of life"

More than 2,000 cities around the world have expressed yesterday, with the Community of Sant'Egidio, their purpose to be "cities for life". 

Because, as Marco Impagliazzo said in the event held in Rome under the Coliseum, "the real answer to the culture of death that manifested itself in recent days is to affirm the sanctity of life, always, in every situation".