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Rome, Italy - March 2016 - On 16 March, the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, met with the Canção Nova mission in Rome for the first time. During the meeting the members of the Canção Nova community were introduced, and there was discussion on the collaboration that had taken place during the bicentenary of the birth of Don Bosco and on future projects.
Lima, Peru – 12 March 2016 - More than 750 thousand people took part in the march for life held in Lima. Its aim was to inform and educate the population about the value of human life from conception to natural death. The event was attended by the Salesians of Peru and by Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima. He concluded the march with a speech in which he emphasized that today's youth are the ones who can really make a change.
Tainan, Taiwan - 5 March 2016 – Eleven new members of the Salesian Cooperators made their promise during the Eucharist presided over by Cardinal Joseph Zen, SDB, in the parish of Mary Help of Christians in Tainan.
Barra do Garças, Brazil - 15 March 2016 - The Salesians of the São Marcos community and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians took part in the first meeting on indigenous formation of the Indigenous Missionary Council. The meeting was coordinated by Fr Mario Bordignon, SDB, and Sister Maria de Lourdes Araújo Duarte, of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.