One crisp April evening earlier this year, at the usual Sant’Egidio round of friendship at Westminster Cathedral, our group met a woman with a three-year-old daughter. She was an Eritrean refugee recently arrived in London with nowhere to stay and no one to turn to. Let’s call her Victoria and her daughter Faith for anonymity. Victoria spoke very little English, just enough to communicate the precariousness of her situation. Faith was a genuine bundle of joy. She was laughing

In early August, I travelled to Cyprus with friends from the Community of Sant’Egidio. The sun shone every day we were there, but we didn’t come for the weather. We came to support the work of the Community in the refugee camps of Pournara and Kofinou, where hundreds of men, women, and children wait—for papers, for safety, for recognition, for a future.

"What are humanitarian corridors? I would like to dwell on the two main aspects of the ​​humanitarian corridors initiative. The first i