Italy - Rector Major presides over Perpetual Professions of 11 Salesians
Messina, Italy - October 2020 - On 17 October, in the church of San Francesco all'Immacolata, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major, presided over the Perpetual Professions of eleven Salesians from the "San Tommaso" Salesian communities of Messina. Also present: Fr Giovanni D'Andrea, Provincial of Sicily and Tunisia (ISI), Fr Giuseppe Cassaro, "San Tommaso" director, various Salesians and Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. The eleven Salesians come from different parts of the world: Luis Ángel Banegas from Ecuador, Cristóvão Fonseca Luis Baptista and Kiesse Paulo De Sousa from Angola, Thierry Bashemezimana from Burundi, Philemon Anthony Chacha from Tanzania, Samuel Habumugisha from Rwanda, Daniel Jimbo Ojijo and John Murithi Mbogo from Kenya, Jacquesa Massa and Jean Paul Ngoie Kabila from Congo, Rocco Tasca from Gela (Italy).