The Community of Sant’Egidio is an international lay Catholic movement founded in 1968 in Rome by Andrea Riccardi. It was recognized as an “international association of the supporters of pontifical rights” by a decree of the Pontifical Council for the Laity on May 18, 1986. Today it is present in 72 countries around the world. Together with the Ministry of the Interior and the Federation of Italian Evangelical Churches (the Waldensian churches), it is one of the signatories of the first protocol establishing the Humanitarian Corridors in December 2015, as well as a signatory to the two subsequent protocols of 2017 and 2019 (together with the Italian Bishops’ Conference).
