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Rome, Italy – December 2023 – On the morning of Sunday, 17 December, Card. Ángel Fernández Artime has taken possession of the deaconry of Mary Help of Christians in Rome. In a simple and dignified celebration that was both genuine and full of enthusiasm, the Cardinal delivered a message full of trust in God to the faithful. Celebrating the Laetare Mass in Advent with him were several dozen Salesians: members of the parish community, led by the parish priest, Fr Valerio Baresi; other Salesians from the communities in Rome, and the Superior of the Special Circumscription of Central Italy, Fr Stefano Aspettati.

One of the most recent circumscriptions erected in the Salesian Congregation, Our Lady of Peace Province of North Africa, is enjoying an animation visit from Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians. Many appointments are planned during these days, during which the 10th Successor of Don Bosco will visit Senegal and Gambia and meet Salesians, young people and the local Salesian Family.

For 48 hours from Friday, 13 October, the spotlights of the Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival (DBGYFF) were turned on in the hundreds of officially registered Salesian Family venues around the world. A great many people gathered to watch the screening of the short films and all the creativity of young people expressed through the means of the "seventh art". The DBGYFF was a dream become a global reality, uniting young people under the theme "Love builds peace and solidarity".

Boretto, Italy - October 2023 - A year after the Canonisation of Salesian Brother Artemides Zatti, the Rector Major of the Salesians and new Cardinal, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, visited Boretto, Zatti’s birthplace, on 7 and 8 October. They were two days full of events and appointments, including the conferring of honorary citizenship of the small Emilian municipality on the Rector Major. A moment of celebration, as recalled by the mayor of Boretto, Matteo Benassi, because “Saint Artemides Zatti was a man of joy.”. As part of the celebrations, the “ColorZatti” (Zatti Festival) event was also held, a youthful walk to rediscover the symbolic places of Artemides Zatti in Boretto.

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