Andrea Riccardi
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Andrea Riccardi is the founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio
. "The Community of Saint Egidio was born in 1968 in Rome and is made up of more than 70,000 persons in more than 70 countries actively involved above all in evangelization and in the service to one’s neighbor, especially the most needy."
Since November 16, 2011, he serves as Minister for International Cooperation without portfolio
in the Monti Cabinet
.
Community of Sant'Egidio
The Community of Sant'Egidio is a Christian community that is officially recognized by the Catholic Church as a "Church public lay association". It claims 50,000 members in more than 70 countries...
. "The Community of Saint Egidio was born in 1968 in Rome and is made up of more than 70,000 persons in more than 70 countries actively involved above all in evangelization and in the service to one’s neighbor, especially the most needy."
The different groups, spread in all the world, are united by the same spirituality:
prayer, spreading of the Gospel, solidarity with the poor, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue, commitment for peace and justice.
The Community of Saint Egidio has become famous to public opinion at the beginning of the nineties due to its work of intermediation in the process of peace after the civil war in Mozambique and for having organized international and interreligious meetings for Peace, the first of which was in 1986 with Pope John Paul II at Assisi.
These meetings are organized every year by the Community in different European cities. In 2003 it took place at Aachen.
Since November 16, 2011, he serves as Minister for International Cooperation without portfolio
Minister without Portfolio
A minister without portfolio is either a government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister that does not head a particular ministry...
in the Monti Cabinet
Monti Cabinet
The Monti cabinet is the incumbent cabinet of the government of Italy and was announced on 16 November 2011. The cabinet is composed of technocrats, three of whom are women. It includes 12 ministers with portfolio, and five without portfolio.-References:...
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Books
- Sant 'Egidio, Rome and the World - by Andrea Riccardi, Peter Heinegg, ISBN 0854395598 / 9780854395590, Saint Paul Publications
See also
- Catholic Worker MovementCatholic Worker MovementThe Catholic Worker Movement is a collection of autonomous communities of Catholics and their associates founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933. Its aim is to "live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ." One of its guiding principles is hospitality towards those on...
- Madonna House ApostolateMadonna House ApostolateThe Madonna House Apostolate is a Catholic Christian community of lay men, women, and priests dedicated to loving and serving Jesus Christ in all aspects of everyday life. It was founded in 1947 by Catherine Doherty in Combermere, Ontario and has established missionary field houses...
- Society of the Catholic Apostolate
- New MonasticismNew MonasticismNew Monasticism, or Neomonasticism, can refer either to a modern movement within Evangelical Protestant Christianity modelled on a monastic way of life in a contemporary context or a movement within Roman Catholicism to expand the way of life of traditional monastic communities to lay...