Mario Marazziti

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Mario Marazziti
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
21 July 2015
President Laura Boldrini
Preceded by Pierpaolo Vargiu
Constituency Sicily 2
Personal details
Born (1952-04-24) 24 April 1952 (age 67)
Rome
Nationality Italian
Political party Civic Choice (2013)
Populars for Italy (2013-2014)
Solidary Democracy (2014-present)
Profession Journalist, Activist

Mario Marazziti (born 24 April 1952 in Rome) is an Italian journalist, executive, and politician. Currently a deputy in the Italian parliament, he is also an executive at RAI, an opinion writer at Corriere della Sera, and a representative of the Community of Sant'Egidio.

RAI Italys national public service

RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

<i>Corriere della Sera</i> Italian newspaper

The Corriere della Sera is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average daily circulation of 410,242 copies in December 2015.

Community of SantEgidio organization

The Community of Sant'Egidio is a lay Catholic association dedicated to social service, founded in 1968 under the leadership of Andrea Riccardi. The group grew and in 1973 was given a home at the former Carmelite monastery and church of Sant'Egidio in Rome, Italy. In 1986 it received recognition from the Roman Curia of the Holy See as an international association of the faithful. Its activities include the Church's evening prayer together daily as a stimulus for lending assistance to a whole spectrum of needy persons: "lonely and non-self-sufficient elderly, immigrants and homeless people, terminally ill and HIV/AIDS patients, children at risk of deviance and marginalization, nomads and the physically and mentally handicapped, drug addicts, victims of war, and prisoners." The community also has a high profile in the area of peace negotiations, in addressing the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and in its opposition to capital punishment. It takes an ecumenical approach in all of its work.

Biography

He was part of the student group which founded the Community of Sant'Egidio in 1968, becoming one of the leaders of their movement against the death penalty. He co-founded the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002, and in 2015 his English-language book, 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty, was published by Seven Stories Press with an afterword by the writer Paul Elie. [1] [2]

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Paul Elie American writer

Paul Elie is an American writer, editor, a senior fellow with the Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, World Affair, and Peace. He is also the director of the American Pilgrimage Project, which is a university partnership with StoryCorps that is based in the Berkley Center.

Elected initially in 2012 to a lower house of parliament, he has continued to serve with a focus on a human rights issues since then. In 2013, Marazziti presented himself as a candidate at the presidential elections and was elected as a deputy in the XVII legislature. He formally left the Corrente Popolare on September 10 of that year along with several other party members to join the group Per l'Italia. He was among those who founded the party Popolari per l'Italia on 24 January 2014, then left that party to join Democrazia Solidale on 10 July that year.

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References

  1. ↑ "13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty". Seven Stories Press.
  2. ↑ Marazziti, Mario (2015). 13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty. New York: Seven Stories Press.
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