• Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, ADR PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2001

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD

The Catholic community of Sant'Egidio now has over 40,000, mainly lay members, working in sixty countries...

In 1968, a small group of upper-class Italian students decided to put the message of the Gospels into practice and devote their lives to serving the poor. They founded the Catholic community of Sant'Egidio, in the Trastevere district of Rome.
In Rome, their activities include taking care of the elderly and running soup-kitchens. In Africa, they take part in humanitarian aid programmes. And since the early 1990s, the Community of Sant'Egidio has acted as mediator in a number of political conflicts. To find out how this religious community manages to achieve political results, Nico Di Biase accompanied Matteo Zuppi during talks intended to bring about a rapprochement between Hutu and Tutsi-led groups in Burundi.