Barcelona -
January 31, 2001
XIII PREMI
INTERNACIONAL
CATALUNYA 2001
The XIII Premi Internacional Catalunya convoking has lasted from April 14 to December 31, 2000, and there have been presented 250 candidatures from 60 countries, by 164 institutions from 36 countries and by the Jury members.
During the month of January 2001 the Jury has studied the proposals and has made a selection. Finally, after voting the finalist candidacies, on January 31 2001 the Jury decides to give the XIII Premi Internacional Catalunya 2001, by absolute majority, to the Christianity historian and cooperator
ANDREA RICCARDI
Because of the following reasons:
First.
Because Andrea Riccardi has assumed the Christianity in a deep way and creative, when he turns his conviction and faith experience into Evangelic action, opened and extended all over the world, dedicated to others, by the study, the solidarity and the peace, basically throught the Community of Sant'Egidio, a lay assotiation founded by him in Rome.
Second.
Because the Community of Sant'Egidio has obtained an ecumenical reach, with house and members also in Catalonia, taking care of the excluded, the poor peaople, the disregarded ill, the non-papers immigrants, the abandoned childhood.
Third.
Because also throught the Community of Sant'Egidio Andrea Riccardi has promoved a huge religious dialogue, interdenominationals and civic, as well as international, based in freedom and justice, in a transcendental sense of the existence.
Fourth.
Because from the Community of Sant'Egidio Andrea Riccardi has strongly influenced in the peace processus of many Third World countries, in some cases reaching all or a part of its objective, as in Mozambique, as he strives to establish a world moratorium of the death penalty.
And fifth.
Because with his books, born from his historian and university side, Andrea Riccardi has offered a clear and sharp panorama and a meditation of the Church and the pontificate of the XXth Century.
The XIII Premi Internacional Catalunya 2001 will be given on May 15, 2001, in a ceremony that will take place in the Palace of the Generalitat of Catalonia, in Barcelona.
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