MOURNING IN THE WORLD RELIGION
Milan , August 13, 2014 – 0:15
” Hello Don! “is the word that stands on the site of Community Meeting . Under a picture of him smiling. Tuesday night is dead Don Pierino Gelmini, founder of the Community Meeting Amelia, in the province of Terni (Umbria). He was 89 years and was ill for some time due to various diseases and had recently undergone an operation to replace the pacemaker. The priest died in his rooms Molino Silla of Amelia. Beside him the closest collaborators. “Don Pierino Gelmini has been assisted by the boys up at last that he has seen for a life” says Gianpaolo Nicolasi, one of his associates. Don Gelmini has always been engaged in the rehabilitation of drug addicts. The community he founded has offices around the world.
Thursday’s funeral
The mortuary was set up in the hall of the Community itself while the funeral will held on Thursday at 10.30 to the Chaplaincy of St. Peter the Apostle Meeting of the Community of Amelia. To celebrate the bishop of Terni, Father Giuseppe Piemontese. Don Gelmini will then be buried in the cemetery of Amelia.
The commitment with addicts
Born to Pozzuolo in the province of Milan, 19 January 1925 (but registered the following day), Pietro Gelmini was for all “Don Pierino” or simply “the Don”. Busy as a youth in the care of young people struggling with drug addiction problems. The idea of setting up a community for teens with drug problems dates back to the sixties. In 1963 Don Gelmini met by chance in Rome a guy with drug problems, Alfredo, and decided to wanting to help. “Zi priest, give me a hand, I do not want money but I’m sick,” she said Alfredo in Piazza Navona. Don Gelmini then took him to his house beginning his assistance and recovery to addicts then finalized by the Community Meeting. Don Gelmini, as well as being a priest of the Catholic Church was the bishop of the Greek-Melichita.
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Don Gelmini, dall? Friendship with Berlusconi community recovery
The Community Meeting
In September 1979 she moved Molino Silla of Amelia. An old dilapidated structure at the time called the Valley of the witches. Over the years Don Gelmini has transformed it into what is now known as the Valley of hope. “I have a dream – he loved to repeat Don Gelmini – to make this friendly place and not a ghetto. A place to feel good about the guys. ” The parent of the Community Meeting has therefore become a modern reception center, also equipped with state of the art health care facilities. A thousand children each year comes from the structure of recovery. It is estimated that at least 300,000 are those passed by the community.
Process
Don Pierino Gelmini was indicted in June 2010 on charges of having sexually molested some young people in 2008 when they were guests of the Community Meeting Amelia. The decision was read in court by the judge for the preliminary hearing of Terni Pierluigi Panariello. The prosecutor had asked for the trial to 12 episodes of alleged harassment. “There is sufficient evidence to justify the trial – said the lawyer instead of Don Gelmini, the lawyer Lanfranco Frezza – also because it is based only on the statements of the injured parties who then have as plaintiffs with a claim for damage. Those statements should have evidence that external goals could somehow confirm the accusation statements. This is an investigation lame that is based on the declarations of plaintiffs without feedback. ”
The defense
Don Gelmini, who has always proclaimed stranger to the accusations, was present at the reading of the measure. The process had recently been postponed due dell’aggravarsi of the health of the accused. The next hearing was fixed however to March 4, 2015, but with the death occurs accused the process will die.
August 13, 2014 | 00:15
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