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(ANS - Freetown) - On the evening of Sunday 31 January, the Rector Major met the Salesian Cooperators and the Past Pupils of Don Bosco, and spoke of his joy at the celebration of the Eucharist that morning. Yesterday, Monday 1 February, the Rector Major went to the beach with the Confreres from Sierra Leone and held a dialogue with them.
(ANS - Lyon) - A Provincial Chapter is a fixed event that is repeated every three years; but this year’s Chapter of the Province of France and Southern Belgium, produced not only an exciting presentation of the work of the coming years, but also and especially a programme of commitment for young people. During the Provincial Chapter 40 guidelines were approved that will direct the pastoral work of the Salesians for the coming years.
(ANS - Aleppo) - The situation in Aleppo? ‘Everything here is confusion, death is everywhere, nobody can understand what is happening and we do not know who we can trust. We were preparing with young people a play to celebrate Don Bosco and we had to stop because several of them died during the bombing’. Fr Luciano Buratti, one of the three Salesians who live in the Salesian House in Aleppo, Syria, says this with a broken voice.