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04/09/2026

01/09/2026

More than 1,000 young Europeans gathered in Budapest for the International Youth Meeting for Peace, "Global Friendship, Global Peace Now!" — including over 150 young people from Ukraine, who shared how solidarity with those suffering from war is the first step toward building peace.
President Marco Impagliazzo's message was clear: "We want to build a world where no one is left behind."

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More than a thousand young Europeans demanding peace and making it a reality every day in their own countries. Not only in Italy, France or Germany, but also where war is raging, as in Ukraine, through solidarity and practical help for those who are suffering. 

28/08/2026

August 28, 1963. In front of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech. A very concrete dream: an America where the color of a person’s skin would not determine their worth, rights, or future.

63 years later, those words do not belong only to history. In the United States, people are still marching for voting rights, equality, and full citizenship — because many of the questions raised then remain unanswered.

Speaking at The Courage of Hope meeting in Rome, Andrea Riccardi said: “The other, the person who is different, is not only a political or social issue: it is a great spiritual question.” He also recalled some verses King often quoted: “I searched for my soul, but my soul I could not see. I searched for my God, but my God eluded me. I searched for my brother, and I found all three.”

Today, at a time when divisions, discrimination, and fear of those who are different are once again growing in the United States and elsewhere, King’s dream remains as relevant as ever: refusing to accept a society built on a divide between “us” and “them.”

28 agosto 1963. Davanti al Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King pronuncia il suo I have a dream. Un sogno molto concreto: un'America in cui il colore della pelle non decidesse il valore, i diritti o il futuro di una persona.

63 anni dopo, quelle parole non appartengono soltanto alla storia. Negli Stati Uniti si continua a marciare per il diritto di voto, l'uguaglianza e la piena cittadinanza: perché molte delle domande poste allora restano aperte.

Andrea Riccardi, in occasione del Meeting "Il Coraggio della Speranza" a Roma, disse: «L'altro, il diverso, non sono solo un problema politico, sociale: sono una grande questione spirituale». E ricordava una poesia cara a King: «Ho cercato la mia anima, ma l'anima non l'ho vista, ho cercato il mio Dio, ma mi è sfuggito, ho cercato mio fratello e ho trovato tutti e tre».

Oggi, in un tempo in cui negli Stati Uniti e altrove tornano divisioni, discriminazioni e paure verso chi è diverso, il sogno di King conserva tutta la sua forza: non accettare una società costruita sulla distanza tra "noi" e "loro".

25/08/2026

Un incontro speciale alla Casa della Solidarietà di New York: la Comunità di Sant'Egidio ha accolto Koko Kondo, che ha donato una copia autografata delle memorie di suo padre, il reverendo Kiyoshi Tanimoto, sopravvissuto alla bomba atomica di Hiroshima e instancabile testimone di pace.

21/08/2026

From Rome to Uganda at the School of Peace in Nyumanzi.

Youth for Peace from Rome and Uganda at the School of Peace in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Uganda, where 800 are studying after fleeing the war in . This school provides invaluable support by offering free , food, and water to the boys and girls in the camp. For a week, we discussed , the environment, and hygiene, sharing the inspiring story of Blessed Floribert.

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21/08/2026

In Cuba, blackouts last up to 22 hours a day. Hospitals are shutting down due to power shortages. Those who need surgery often have to bring their own gloves from home: hospitals have run out entirely.

It is the country with the highest number of doctors per capita in the world—8.4 per 1,000 residents, three times that of the United States—yet since January, the embargo has also cut off oil supplies, paralyzing transportation, agriculture, tourism, and healthcare. State pharmacies, once the country's pride, are now almost entirely bare.

Amidst this crisis, the Community of Sant'Egidio has opened free clinics in Havana and Santiago to care for the most vulnerable. This week brought a concrete sign of relief: a container carrying over €700,000 worth of essential medicines, gauze, and disinfectants, gathered in Italy thanks to local Communities and the Banco Farmaceutico ETS Foundation.

A glimmer of relief for an island that desperately needs it.

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20/08/2026

In 1991, the ship Vlora brought thousands of Albanians to Italy, fleeing a regime that had impoverished the country for decades. Today, 35 years later, Albania has changed, yet people continue to leave.

Recent statistics show a 40% demographic decline over the past 35 years, among the highest in the world. Today, those leaving the country are predominantly young graduates, searching abroad for a future they cannot find at home. Those who remain are often the elderly—increasingly alone, lacking a family support network, and more and more frequently institutionalized. The Council of Europe ranks Albania among the European nations with the highest rates of individuals "confined" to institutions: not only the elderly, but also children, persons with disabilities, and psychiatric patients.

For decades, every summer, the Community of Sant'Egidio has responded to this loneliness. This year, about a hundred volunteers—including many young people—traveled from Rome, Naples, Genoa, Pavia, Livorno, and Novara for a summer of solidarity in Albania.

Some spent time with the residents of family homes, restoring a sense of normalcy and family life to those who had been segregated in total institutions for years. The youngest volunteers chose to be present every day at the Sadik Dinci psychiatric hospital, the largest in the country: art, theater, carpentry, and sewing workshops, along with moments of prayer, brought spaces of humanity back to those living in confinement.

Not mere charity, but true friendship—made of time, care, and constant presence, year after year

13/08/2026

"A group of Youth for Peace from Italy has arrived in Kampala to experience a summer of friendship, solidarity, and tangible commitment alongside the Community of Sant'Egidio in Uganda.

From the inauguration of the new Eco Lab in Ntinda to supporting street girls, all the way to the final celebration with diplomas for the School of Peace: stories and faces of a generation choosing to disarm the world and build the future starting from the most vulnerable.

The journey now continues toward Nyumanzi, on the border with South Sudan!

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13/08/2026

"They don't wait for the future. They build it today.
Today is International Youth Day. And this is how we want to tell their story: through the faces of the young people who choose solidarity, encounter, and peace every single day — in the Schools of Peace, in nursing homes, in refugee camps, on the streets of our cities.
They are not the future of peace. They are peace, today."

06/08/2026

«Le armi nucleari e l’umanità non possono coesistere.»
Lo scorso anno, alla Preghiera per la Pace della Comunità di Sant’Egidio, Katsuko Tanaka, hibakusha e sopravvissuta al bombardamento atomico di Hiroshima, ha affidato la sua testimonianza a un appello netto contro la minaccia nucleare.

Anche quest'anno la memoria di Hiroshima e Nagasaki sarà al centro della Vigil for Peace, perché il ricordo continui a essere un argine contro la guerra e la minaccia nucleare.

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