Focolare Movement

UNESCO Peace Prize awarded to Italy’s refugee mayor

Apr 1, 2017

Lampedusa Mayor Giuseppina Nicolini was awarded the UNESCO’s peace prize along with French NGO SOS Méditerranée for “her great service to humanity and her constant commitment in saving countless migrants and refugees and receiving them on the Italian island and in other parts of Italy”. The mayor will be present for the 1st May activities […]

GiuseppinaNicoliniLampedusa Mayor Giuseppina Nicolini was awarded the UNESCO’s peace prize along with French NGO SOS Méditerranée for “her great service to humanity and her constant commitment in saving countless migrants and refugees and receiving them on the Italian island and in other parts of Italy”. The mayor will be present for the 1st May activities in Loppiano and at the Youth for a United World Meeting, to be held also in Loppiano.  

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