CARING FOR THE FRAGILE AND BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY
Lidia Moniava, Deputy Director of Dom s majakom Pediatric Hospice and Director of the namesake charitable foundation; Frederica de Graaf, physician and volunteer at the first Hospice in Moscow; Giovanni Guaita, priest and monk of the Russian Orthodox Church. Introduced by Giovanna Parravicini, Fondazione Russia Cristiana.
A lesser-known Russia, where civil society has been fighting for human life’s value and dignity for thirty years, is discussed by Lida Moniava, tied to the Pediatric Hospice she directs; Frederica De Graaf, who will talk about meeting God and discovering oneself as a basis for guiding others through life and death; and Father Giovanni Guaita on the meaning of Christian hope in the face of suffering.