(ANS– Rome) – Being faithful to one's origins, but having the ability and originality to communicate clearly with today's world: this was the challenge on which about 150 young religious in formation – Salesians of Don Bosco, Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, but also novices and students of other institutes – reflected together in the afternoon of Friday 3rd and in the morning of Saturday 4 May 2024, at the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS) in Rome, as part of the 14th year of the Salesian Social Communication Days.
(ANS – Modica) – With a solemn celebration inside the Mother Church of St Peter, the diocesan inquiry into Nino Baglieri, Volunteer with Don Bosco (CDB), has come to a close. Many faithful from the diocese of Noto and the various Salesian works in Sicily also took part in a moving and solemn celebration presided over by Bishop Salvatore Rumeo, Bishop of Noto, with several diocesan and Salesian priests.
(ANS – Rome) – Saturday, 4 May 2024, at 2:00 pm (UTC+2), all Salesian Cooperators in the world are invited to a celebratory online event that is part of the three-year preparation for the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Association of Salesian Cooperators. It will be a moment to retrace the journey made so far and start the second year around 2026.
(ANS - Cagliari) - From April 25th to 27th, a thousand vibrant young individuals from the Salesian Youth Movement (SYM) flooded Cagliari with their infectious joy and enthusiasm, participating in the 7th MGS Forum of Central Italy, aptly titled: "Called to Hope!".
(ANS – Modica) – It has been 12 long years since the start of the diocesan process of beatification and canonisation of Nino Baglieri, Volunteer with Don Bosco (CDB), held on 3-4 March 2012, in the presence of the then Rector Major of the Salesians, Fr Pascual Chávez. Now the diocesan phase of the process of beatification and canonisation, an important moment of investigation, study, research and information collection, is coming to an end: the closing rite of the investigation has been scheduled for 5 May in Modica, in his Mother Church of St Peter.
(ANS – Rome) – With the publication of the 10th volume of the critical edition of Don Bosco's letters (Rome, LAS 2024), the very ambitious project of the Salesian Historical Institute (ISS), launched at its foundation in 1982, has come to an end. Volume 10 collects in the first part the letters from 1887, January 1888 and about eighty letters not included in the previous volumes (as recovered after their printing); the second part consists of the indexing of names of people, places, correspondents, subjects, in order to facilitate searches within volumes that would easily remain dusty on library shelves at a tine like the present, in which history seems to have lost much of its appeal.
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INTERVIEWS
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RMG – “Do Elderly Salesians have a role in the Digital Culture?”The answer in the letter “Sharing wisdom and hope in digital culture” from the General Councillor for Social Communication
(ANS – Rome) – In view of the current digital reality, and due to the presence, especially in some regions of the Salesian world, of a large number of elderly Salesians, the General Councillor for Social Communication, Fr Gildasio Mendes, has decided to dedicate a special letter to them, entitled: "Sharing wisdom and hope in digital culture". Here is how he explains to ANS readers today the origins, significance and perspectives of this document.
EDITORIAL
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Myanmar – Tragedy of Innocent Children in the midst of Armed Conflicts(ANS – Naypyidaw) - Myanmar finds itself immersed in profound grief and anguish as innocent lives, particularly those of children, continue to be mercilessly lost in the enduring armed conflicts. Families are left devastated by the tragic loss of their loved ones while the relentless violence shows no signs of abating. This week, a heartfelt plea from Myanmar reached our community, shedding light on the heart-wrenching death of a young girl Juliet in a military airstrike, prompting a unified call for prayers and action.
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Italy – Artificial Intelligence and "The Oratory". Two events for reflection and debate at UPS(ANS – Rome) – The Faculty of Social Communication Sciences (FSC) of the Pontifical Salesian University (UPS), based in Rome, is promoting two events in May, the month in which the World Day of Social Communications is celebrated (this year, Sunday 12th) as well as the anniversary of the charismatic Letter from Rome by Don Bosco (10 May). They will explore the dimension of communication in its current and future panorama and the continuing relevance of the Salesian presence among young people at risk. These issues will be addressed through the presentation of a book on "Artificial Intelligence. In search of humanity", Thursday 16 May 2024, and the screening of the film "The Oratory", Friday 17th.
SPECIAL REPORTS
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RMG – Communication 60 years after "Inter Mirifica"(ANS – Rome) – On 14 December 1963, the Council's Inter Mirifica Decree on the instruments of social communication was promulgated. The title already looked with admiration at the field of communication, encouraging the Church to support the media. Which is seen to be beautiful and fair.
MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR
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I’M A SALESIAN AND I’M A BOROROTHE MESSAGE OF THE RECTOR MAJOR, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB
Diary of a Happy and Blessed Missionary Day
Dear friends , I’m writing to you from Meruri in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. I write this greeting almost as if it were a journalistic report, because it has been only 24 hours since I arrived in the middle of this Brazilian state.