This pushed him to join the charity Mani Tese ("Outstretched Hands"), organising several camps to collect funds in order to support small projects related to the association.

[3] In 1972, he decided to join the religious institute of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus; his studies brought him to move first to Florence,[4] then to Venegono Inferiore (in the Province of Varese) and finally to Chicago,[3] where he graduated from Catholic Theological Union and served in the St. Ludmila Parish.

[11][12][13] Inspired by the teachings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,[3][9] he put himself to the front in their struggle for justice, trying to lead them to a pacifistic protest rather than to start an armed revolution.

[6][14] On July 24, 1985, Ramin, alongside the local trade union leader Adilio de Souza,[15] chaired a meeting in Fazenda Catuva[2] in Ji-Paraná, in the nearby state of Rondônia,[16] trying to persuade the small farmers employed there to avoid taking arms against the landowners,[17] going against a request of caution issued by his superiors.

[25] He also produced a considerable number of drawings, especially in charcoal, that were the subject of an exhibition held in 2010 in his native city of Padua, promoted by the local Comune (municipality) and organised by Maria Cristina Ferin, Federica Millozzi and Fabiano Ramin.

[26] Several initiatives in honour of Ezechiele Ramin are regularly held both in his native Padua and in Cacoal, mostly linked to promoting peaceful protest instead of armed revolution and to awakening the young people's awareness and interest in the missionary world.

Lentz, though, has often added halos to icons representing martyrs not conventionally recognised as saints, such as Albert Einstein,[33] César Chávez[34] and Heȟáka Sápa (Black Elk).

Lettere e scritti 1971 – 1985 was organized in Padova on Human Rights Day, with actor Andrea Pennacchi and the international "music collective" Luomodellazappa.

[49] In Brazil, in Picos (Piauí), the Angoli di Mondo association supported the building and activation of a day care centre for street children that was named after Ramin.

[50] The Comboni missionaries, led by Superior General Teresino Serra, are advancing the cause for Ramin's martyrdom (and therefore his status as a blessed and possibly as a saint) to be formally recognised by the Catholic Church.