Eucharistie d'action de grâce pour les 57 ans de Sant'Egidio

On 18 May, the Chaplain-President was honoured to attend a mass at Notre-Dame aux Riches Claires, Brussels to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the foundation of Sant'Egidio, a Catholic charity which works tirelessly for the disadvantaged in Europe and the Middle East, especially in organising the Humanitarian Corridor to enable refugees to be welcomed and helped to integrate into Western European countries. The Central Committee has had a wonderful relationship with Sant'Egidio in recent years, welcoming three refugee families from Syria to our parishes in Gent and Leuven (one of our photos shows the Chaplain-President and Secretary-General with one of these families). The mass was concelebrated by Mgr Guy Harpigny, bishop of Tournai, and several Catholic priests, one of whom was Père Jérôme Bountsébé from Cameroon, one of Jack's PhD students in KU Leuven.