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Sant’Egidio is a Christian community born in 1968, right after the second Vatican Council. An initiative of Andrea Riccardi, it was born in a secondary school in the centre of Rome. With the years, it has become a network of communities in more than 70 countries of the world. The Community pays attention to the periphery and peripheral people, gathering men and women of all ages and conditions, united by a fraternal tie through the listening of the Gospel and the voluntary and free commitment for the poor and peace.
Prayer, poor and peace are its fundamental points of reference.
Prayer, based on the listening of the Word of God, is the first deed of the Community: it accompanies and guides life. In Rome and across the world, it is also a meeting and welcome point for whoever would like to listen to the Word of God and address his or her invocation to the Lord.
The poor are brothers and sisters, friends of the Community. Friendship with anyone in need – elderly, homeless, migrants, people with disabilities, prisoners, street children – is a distinctive trait of the life of whom is part of Sant’Egidio in the different continents.
The awareness and understanding that war is the mother of all poverties has driven the Community to work for peace, to protect it where it is threatened and to help re-build it, facilitating dialogue where it has been lost. The work to foster peace is lived as a Christian responsibility, part of a broader service of reconciliation. It is also part of the fraternity lived through ecumenical commitment and interreligious dialogue, in the “Spirit of Assisi”.
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Let us combine ecology and solidarity to counter the culture of waste and help many people.
The Community of Sant'Egidio is a collective subject. Each of its activities is the result of a common work, of the synergy of men and women of different ages and conditions, who, voluntarily and free of charge, offer what they want and can. Anyone who wants to contribute is welcome.
Every day on the side of the poor, with voluntary and free commitment. Do you want to help us?
