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Sant’Egidio Christmas Lunch will be at Maputo Cathedral: Offered to approximately 600 children, elderly, disadvantaged and poor people in the city – on December 25
6:43 CAT | 22 Dec 2022
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Christmas lunch with the poor is a tradition of the Community of Sant’Egidio, an organisation founded 40 years ago, in 1982, by a small group in Rome’s Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere. That group has grown over the years, and today its Christmas Day luncheon is held in over 70 countries worldwide.
This year, around 200,000 people in more than 600 cities around the world will sit at the table to demonstrate the possibility of changing the world through solidarity, encounter and integration. Tables will therefore be set on all continents, although the best known remains that of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome.
Christmas lunch should a family meal and not just a distribution of food, so the members of the Community of Sant’Egidio will sit together with the poor of every ethnicity and religion, including beggars, the homeless, the elderly, refugees, prisoners (who are served lunch in jail), street children and children who attend the Schools of Peace that the Community of Sant’Egidio organizes on the outskirts of cities.
The poor are our friends throughout the year, and we want to share Christmas with them, bearing a message of solidarity and co-existence in a world too often marked by the fear of meeting someone different.
In Mozambique last year, the Community of Sant’Egidio organised the Christmas lunch in about 150 locations across the country, involving around 30,000 people. Lunch was also served in 28 prisons.
The lunches are prepared thanks to the generosity of many, as is also the case here in Mozambique, despite the economic crisis. They contribute to the collections organized by the Community, believing that “no one is so poor that he cannot help another”.
On this occasion, we send you our best wishes for a Merry Christmas with peace and harmony, along with our best regards.
Maputo, 20th December, 2022
Father Giorgio Ferretti
For the Community of Sant’Egidio
Maputo – Avenida Sekou Touré 1240
For more information call 846562630 or visit: www.santegidio.org
Source: Comunidade de Sant’Egidio em Moçambique / Press Release
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