A lay community aids the Roma of Rome
A video about Sant’Egidio, a Catholic community that does all it can to use their resources to help the Roma in Rome, because of a calling from the Gospel to befriend the poor.
Outside the camps: Helping the Roma in Rome
The Roma (gypsies) are a group of people who are historically Italy’s most marginalized, hated, victimized and poor. Sant’Egidio is a lay organization that battles negative public sentiment to provide these people with the social services they desperately need. The services are not granted to them in the camps they are forced to live in by the government, which in turn has spurred ethic and religious conflicts within camp boundaries.
A Roma family tell their story
Many Roma, like Zoran Maksimuric who is from Serbia, want to leave the poverty, crime and often desperate living conditions found at many camps and integrate into mainstream Italian life.
A place to pray
Bogdan Mohora profiles Bahar Dik, a Turkish Muslim student currently studying in Rome and finds out the meaning of acceptance through religious difference.
Holy faces and faith
Every Sunday afternoon St. George’s Episcopal Church on 14-02 27th Avenue in Astoria, Queens transforms into Sts. Peter and Paul Romanian Orthodox Church.
A sound with swagger
The unique sound and ‘”swagger” of the of New Life Tabernacle’s Mass Choir has been getting people, especially young adults, inside church doors.
