02 May 2024 11:25
Two events in one. The Union of Italian Catholic jurists of the Terni section, as part of the ‘Citizenship and Constitution’ project for secondary school students, has organized a legal seminar scheduled for Friday 3 May in the auditorium of the Casagrande-Cesi institute . In ‘War in Article 11 of the Italian Constitution’, together with Article 11 of the Constitution, the United Nations Charter and Article 5 of the NATO Treaty will be discussed. This will be followed by a ‘Testimony from the war fronts’ which will conclude with the international ‘Tommaso Moro’ award which this year was awarded to Alessandro Monteduro, general director of the Acs-Italia foundation.
The award to Dr. Alessandro Monteduro
These are the reasons for the award: «To Doctor Alessandro Monteduro for the extraordinary activity carried out with exemplary zeal and commitment in defense of the universal and Italian constitutional Christian values of peace and religious freedom, and in particular for the concrete support of persecuted Christians in the world. Tireless manager of the Aid to the Church in Need of Italy foundation, an unsurpassed communicator, he has demonstrated and demonstrates in his daily life, in his work aimed at making known the dramatic situation of the least, of the most persecuted, in supporting and defending them, as in his personal and familiar, how the full and concrete realization of the evangelical principles is possible and effective”.
«Serious topic»
The Union of Catholic Jurists of Terni and the Christian Workers Movement of Umbria, with the patronage of the prefecture of Terni, as stated by the lawyer Diego Piergrossi, president of Ugci Terni, «have strongly wanted to address such a serious and current issue in high schools to once again provide students in the province of Terni with the legal tools necessary to orient themselves in the mass of information disseminated by the media, many of which are manipulated or poorly transmitted due to lack of knowledge of the complex treaties in question”. Among the speakers, for the legal part, professor Luca Castelli (professor of public law at the University of Perugia and global fellow Jean Monnet center New York university), lawyer Diego Piergrossi (qualified Red Cross advisor for international law humanitarian, former legal advisor of the Italian Army), the lawyer Ermanno Ventura (coordinator of the Terni-Narni-Amelia diocesan pastoral commission for justice and peace, president of Mcl Umbria); for his testimony from the war fronts, Dr. Alessandro Monteduro (general director of the Acs Italia foundation).
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