EVENTS

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity from 18 to 25 January 2025: so that they may be one

Prayers and ecumenical meetings with Christians of different denominations: appointments with Sant'Egidio
From 18 to 25 January 2025, the Church celebrates the Week for Christian Unity,
a time of reflection and prayer in union with Christians of all confessions.
 
The Community of Sant'Egidio, everywhere in the world, is dedicating its evening prayer to the invocation for the unity 
and promoting ecumenical prayers and meetings.
 
 
Every evening in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Piazza di S. Maria in Trastevere, special prayers for Christian Unity :
 

18 January

 

19 January

 

20 January

 

21 January

 
Genoa
Tuesday 21st January at 5.45 p.m. Sala Frate Sole, piazza della Nunziata 4
REFLECTION MEETING ON THE THEME ‘DO YOU BELIEVE THIS?’ FROM THE COUNCIL OF NICEA TO TODAY
with the participation of Lidia Maggi, Baptist Pastor and Mons. Franco Buzzi, Prefect of the Ambrosian Library
 
Padua
Tuesday 21 January at 7.30 p.m., Church of the Immaculate Conception
 

22 January

 
 Livorno
Wednesday 22 January at 6.30 pm, Church of San Giovanni Battista with Bishop Simone Giusti
 
Parma
Wednesday 22 January at 7 p.m., Church of Santa Caterin, Borgo Santa Caterina 10. Ecumenical prayer together with the Moldavian Orthodox Church
 
Rome
Wednesday 22 January at 7.30 p.m., parish of Santa Maria del Carmelo. Prayer with Father Vladimir Laiba of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and with Pastor Mirella Manocchio of the Methodist Church 
 

23 January

 
Genoa
Thursday 23 January at 8.45 p.m., Sala Luterana Stöhr, Via Assarotti 21 A, Ecumenical Walk
 
Rome
Thursday, 23 January, 7 p.m., parish of San Romano Martire. Prayer with a representative of the Romanian Orthodox Church
 
Thursday, 23 January, 8 p.m., visit to the Memorial of the New Martyrs and prayer at St. Bartholomew's on Tiber Island with a delegation of professors and students from the Bossey Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches, accompanied by officials of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity
 
Thursday, 23 January 7:00 p.m., Precious Blood Church, Largo Pannonia
 

24 January

 
Genoa
Friday 24 January at 5.45 p.m. in the Cathedral
ECUMENICAL VIGIL WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF:
 
Archbishop Marco Tasca, Catholic Church of Genoa
Father Filip Sorin, Romanian Orthodox Church of Genoa
Pastors Ulrike and William Jourdan, Waldensian Church of Genoa
Dr. Luca Manfredini, Head of the Gaslini Hospice
 

25 January

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ends today. Particular memory of Christian communities in Asia and Oceania