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Legnano, Italy - April 2016 – On Saturday 2 April in the church of St Rita in Legnano (Milan), the inauguration took place of a permanent exhibition dedicated to the Servant of God Father Carlo Crespi. Fr Crespi was a Salesian missionary in Ecuador, a scientist and musician, and a native of Legnano. The initiative, promoted by the "Fr Carlo Crespi Association, included a moment of prayer inspired by the encyclical Laudato Sii of Pope Francis. It was attended by Msgr. Gian Paolo Citterio, Episcopal Vicar, Mayor Alberto Centinaio and other religious and civil authorities. Fr Pierluigi Cameroni SDB, Postulator General, said that Fr Crespi lived an intense spiritual life, practicing the works of mercy, especially with love for the young and the poor, and the exercise of the ministry of reconciliation, and witnessed a great love for nature, the work of God.
(ANS – Dungalpitiya) – Fr. Noel Sumagui (45 years, Filipino missionary from FIN province) was sent by the Rector Major last September 2015 with other 5 missionaries to Sri Lanka Viceprovince. Six months after living in this South Asia country that suffered recently a civil war and many painful experiences, Fr. Noel shares his new life experience.
(ANS - Khartoum) - Years ago Sudan hit the headlines as a result of photographs that won the Pulitzer Prize. A great photographer called Kevin Carter took a photo of a little girl and gave it the title: "the little girl and the vulture." In fact, the photo showed a vulture behind the small girl, as if waiting for her to die before eating her. The picture went around the world, was applauded for its content and its meaning, and was much talked about. But there is a message that today the world has not yet understood - do something to change the lives of millions of children and remove them from a poverty that becomes inhuman.
(ANS - Santiago) - Often, not only on social networks, but also in the courtroom, there is argument about harassment and humiliation received at universities. These outrageous gestures, also called "baptism" - and in Chile, especially, "mechoneo" – are a form of "welcome" for the freshman, both at university and in other institutions. But one thing is clear, they often go far beyond a simple joke to welcome newly arrived students. Some of these rituals involve humiliation, harassment, dominance-submission relationships, abuse and disrespect. Young people from the Salesian University in Chile have decided to change the style of the "welcome" and they call it "mechoneo solidale".